Cullen Kelly’s rejection of HDR and belief that limitation is a virtue extend to his view of art history itself:
“Go find me a painting where you can discern more than five to six stops of dynamic range… that’s generally not the way we absorb a painting… that’s actually part of what makes those paintings so captivating.”
—Cullen Kelly, Colorist
The Old Masters didn’t sit around praising the “captivating” limitations of their pigments.
Neither did Alexis Van Hurkman, who wrote that his quest was:
“…to mine the fine arts that have come before us for creative solutions that already exist, but have been neglected due to colorists having been stuck within the narrow confines of BT.709 and BT.1886 for so long. Breaking free of those restraints makes the work of other artistic disciplines even more accessible to us as models for what is artistically possible.”
Van Hurkman’s piece shows us what the great painters actually teach us about shadows, highlights, and contrast.
Source: Alexis Van Hurkman, HDR, Resolve, and Creative Grading, alexisvanhurkman.com, May 6, 2016
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