“I totally agree Daniel! Thank you very much for saying what I’m sure many of you have been thinking for a long time, and especially since Steve Yedlin’s “Debunking HDR” talk! What empty debates have formed on social media, about this! I recently gave a talk on color management, and I made sure to do an initial “disclaimer” to express to people that I was going to speak in general terms and not overly specific, using a lot of metaphors to understand the concepts behind the particular terminology. Anyway, thank you for this post! As we say in Spain: “you are more right than a saint.” Cristóbal Bolaños López
This is a textbook case of intellectual surrender:
1. Absorption: Cristóbal Bolaños López credited Yedlin’s anti-establishment narrative (“HDR = chaos,” “SDR = reliable”) for reshaping his mental model, which gave him permission to question HDR orthodoxies.
2. Retreat: When challenged by experts —who dismantled Yedlin’s flawed claims—he walked back technical points, adopting a defensive posture.
3. Deflection: He then latched onto Daniel Bañuelos Cuéllar’s “gatekeeping” argument, framing accuracy as elitism while shifting blame to manufacturers.
4. Avoidance: He now defaults to metaphors and generalizations, avoiding specifics to preempt “empty debate.” This conflict-avoidance teaching philosophy creates three problems for students:
- They inherit distorted technical foundations (Yedlin’s Debunked claims)
- They learn to dismiss precision as “gatekeeping”
- They miss how real industry disputes resolve technical disagreements.
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