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Photo of the Day - June 2009
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River Waal (rhine..) near Nijmegen.
The memorial was erected on 18/09/1984, 40 years after the Market Garden-operation.
It commemorates the Waal-crossing by the 504e PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment) of the 82ste Airborne division and the 307 Eng 376 Pfab, with the 505 Par Infantry Guards Armored division.
47 American soldiers were killed during this operation.
I generally agree that post processing is an important skill to develop, but I would also have to agree with Doylem that starting with it is not the most expedient approach to making great images. I taught Photoshop classes for several years and definitely saw a lot of people getting hung up on it as a panacea for problematic photographs (I did too for many years). Post-processing is great to learn alongside traditional photographic principles and methods, just so long as it really is alongside. I think that learning about light and composition should take priority over anything else.
By all means, experiment! Just don't let the magic of post-processing software seduce you into neglecting the power you have at the moment of capture.
Well said.
I have one word for this...
Polariod
Well said.
I have one word for this...
Polariod
I can still scan the Polariod and apply my party tricks on it.
Once you are seduced by the darkside there is no turning back.Ok jokes aside, I keep hearing that post production is magic or effects that are used to fix a bad photo. Post production is anything you do with your photo once the image is saved from the sensor/film. That includes simple curves adjustments or WB corrections. My point earlier was that just like learning to control aperture, shutter speed and composition learning how to develop your photo is an important skill for a photographer. If all you do is download the photo from your camera, it's like shooting in auto. You are letting the JPEG processor in your camera make all of the decisions for you, why not learn how to have control over your final image.
So I'll say it again experiment, learn how far you can push it and then pull it back to the photo you wanted to create. Maybe that is only a photo with simple curves adjustment or a tone mapped hdr. In end we are all taking photos with a camera and one way or another we end up with an image. That's what should be judged the final image, not what techniques or magic might have been used.
I agree 100%... with a minor caveat...
If anyone of us "judges" (to use your words) a photograph to be lacking somehow... and offers some contructive criticism about what seems to be wrong with it according to our personal perspective, and is meant to be friendly... I think this is a situation we've pretty much found acceptable on this forum. Sometimes this criticism addresses technique, whatever you consider this to be (composition, subject, light, exposure, post processing, etc...) and if it's meant to convey how the photo impacts the person responding, I don't see how this can do anything but help. Just because someone doesn't care for a particular "look" doesn't mean you shouldn't express yourself that way. But you shouldn't be offended if someone says they don't like it... and why they don't. It's all feedback that we put in our frames of reference, and which help us develop as artists. And in the end, diversity is the richness we all benefit from. Vivé le differénce!
Now, maybe I'll find the guts to submit some more photos to this tough 'gallery' of artists here.
River Waal (rhine..) near Nijmegen.
The memorial was erected on 18/09/1984, 40 years after the Market Garden-operation.
It commemorates the Waal-crossing by the 504e PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment) of the 82ste Airborne division and the 307 Eng 376 Pfab, with the 505 Par Infantry Guards Armored division.
47 American soldiers were killed during this operation.
thanks for sharing. great photo. i really need to get to Europe to visit some of these sites.
Nevermind, it's just not worth continuing this argument in the POTD.
From last year
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If it means anything I thought these two images were Doylem's.
Thanks, mine is HDR.
Ha, I'm just kidding it has very little post on it. I wanted to show that I could take a photo without a lot of post production.
The color isolation doesn't quite work for me in this image. To me, the eyes give the beautiful child an eerie quality.
