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Photo of the Day - February 2012
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Great rock shot. Love the expressiveness of this. The link for Leefest has no info. Can you fill me in on this? Albert Lee?
Dale
Oh, the "Leefest 2011" is just the name of all the shots, as it was so long ago now I've long forgotten which band was which. It's a charity festival in South London run by one guy, Lee, and his family, I did some filming for them for 2011, the photography was just me messing around during my breaks, been asked to come back for this years to shoot stuff to be their main brand imagery, which is pretty sick to be given that responsibility.
Took a long drive to visit the national parks in Moab, UT this past weekend. This one is of a pinion pine being lit up at sunrise at Dead Horse Point.
Valentine's Day Blues
I've been on a real tear with my iPhone 4S, it's become my go to camera as of late. Can't really post the other content I've been using my DSLR for as of late, so here's one of my newer 4S snaps.
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It's actually a few weeks old, but I haven't contributed in such a long time, better late than never.
I've been on a real tear with my iPhone 4S, it's become my go to camera as of late. Can't really post the other content I've been using my DSLR for as of late, so here's one of my newer 4S snaps.
It's actually a few weeks old, but I haven't contributed in such a long time, better late than never.
I took this image last year but only managed to get the 'gritty' look I have been after yesterday.
It took a lot of time in Photoshop to get the image to look as I wanted it to but it's there now.
Enjoy.
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Urban Portrait by Say_Cheese1981, on Flickr
It took a lot of time in Photoshop to get the image to look as I wanted it to but it's there now.
Enjoy.
Urban Portrait by Say_Cheese1981, on Flickr
I’m not a ‘purist’ about photography (through I wouldn’t be upset if I never saw another cartoon-like HDR shot
). I just like to know that what I’m looking at is - substantially - real. And when I see a heavily manipulated pic like this, I no longer believe that this event happened/these people ever existed/this landscape was actually there. Once photography loses this aspect of “there-ness”, it loses 90% of its meaning too... including the trust of the viewer in what he’s seeing. The image becomes all surface and no depth: stripped of the ‘validity’ of a documentary photograph, yet without the emotional charge that a painting might provide. That is... the worst of both worlds: neither true, nor interpretive... just technique. The effect is to make all the pictures look pretty much the same...Just my opinion (and worth as much as you paid for it)...
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I’m not a ‘purist’ about photography (through I wouldn’t be upset if I never saw another cartoon-like HDR shot
Just my opinion (and worth as much as you paid for it)...
Lol I almost hold the exact opposite view and bizarrely it’s almost for the same reasons.. I greatly enjoy more 'unrealistic shots' eg HDR's or Dave Hill types and especially or the ethereal photos of.... http://500px.com/Petrova_Julian/photos
For me 99% of all photo's are edited these days in some way, either in camera through the built in settings or in LR/aperture....(and buy the way this is not a modern phenomenon many greats used post techniques to enhance the photo's in the film days too)
...I Like honesty in photos, and to me if you manipulate a photo and hide it by trying to make it realistic you are lying to the viewer...where as if you come right out and say hey I manipulated this photo, this is my vision of this scene, it puts me more at ease.
I have a friend who is a keen photographer who like you is not keen on these type of images, we took photo’s of a similar scene recently and I made mine look more ‘unreal’, he emailed back he didn’t like it and sent over his version which he had not ‘photoshopped!’ but just used lightroom to adjust exposure, clarity, curves, sat, a touch of vibrance etc etc. The implication being his version was more pure. To me it was just as false as mine, but at least mine was more obvious to the viewer.
That’s not to say, I don’t enjoy ‘regular’ photo’s or to say I enjoy every heavily photoshopped picture (there are plenty of eyesore’s in this category…sadly including some of mine!!)
As Doyelm said this is just my view, but it did strike me as a bit curious, we had similar reasons but ended up with different taste’s.
Ultimately I guess it just proves photography is an art and different people enjoy different things
I take great comfort in this, becasuse it means that no matter how bad my pics are at least someone somewhere will quite like it
