"Depends on the type of photo" breaks it abit imo, since nothing works good if its aplyed to the wrong photo.
HDR can be used in a very wide range of different kinds of photos, and can produce so many different effects. You might enjoy one, and disslike another.
HDR, as so many other things, can easely be overdone, but I bet that in "most" cases you wont even know youre looking at a HDR photo.

HDR is good, and HDR is here to stay

I've seen good uses of HDR (which is actually compressed dynamic range, just not called that). But I don't like when the sky looks darker than the land--it's unnatural; not even what our eyes see.

I had a shot recently (RAW of course) which I turned into this; no HDR needed. You can do plenty a polarizing filter (though I lacked one), curves, dodging, and burning, and it's easier. What I'd like our budding photographers to think of, is that if you want to make a dark patch of ground bright like the sky, it's going to look fake and shoddy. There's a reason your subject is dark. If the scene is so contrasty that your subject goes pitch-black when the sky is a moderate blue, your shooting in the wrong light. Instead of trying HDR, try coming back in the evening.

Only if its done really well... I am SOOOOO sick and tired of grayed out HDR shots faked with photoshop.... Just because you use the clarify button doesn't mean you created an HDR Image.... If there is more gray than color.... just trash it or start over... also... there IS such thing as over doing it... HDR should ENHANCE the image.. not make it worse. /rant off.

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depends on how good it is done - I dont want to look at a photo and the first thing I think is "hdr"...

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I like it, but I often see photos with overdose of HDR. I'm learning not over do it.

Not really.

In principal, expanding the dynamic range of a shot by a couple ot stops is a good idea, and occasionally I see some nicely blended natural looking skies.
Most of the time though it just looks like colourful vomit. To many colours, no attempt to balance tones or make an image look natural...just "Look how bright my colours are"

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HDR can really expand the possible if used properly but, in my opinion, it can go beyond what’d pleasing to my eye. For me and for some others HDR is kinda new so one can expect a certain amount of experimentation not all of which will be successful. There is sometimes a tendency to overuse HDR.

HDR FTW. I find it fairly difficult to execute to the standards I hold "most" of my photos to, but when you get it right the image can really take on a whole new life.

Can't stand it in 95% cases. Unnatural looking to my eye, most of them. There are really few that I like but then if the artist didn't say in description it was HDR I wouldn't know it.

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