Some of the examples are quite lovely.. but also weird and unnatural.. If conventional lenses/apertures can't get the whole range of what we can see.. neither can our eyes really capture it all. Quite a few look odd to me because they go too far in the other direction: too much information.. too much light... too much something!
When used in moderation, though, they do arrive close to "photographic" perfection.. I'm thinking of the basilica interior which is pretty close to what a person would see, yet is hard to capture with conventional photography (bottom photo here):
Photomatix User Gallery - Ron Harmeyer
Some of the "unnatural" examples are pleasant in a painterly way.. but others look "bad" to me.. just "wrong" somehow! Maybe it's just me.. I wonder what other people think.
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