The 100 best photographs ever taken without photoshop
Aug 14, 2017 12:15:02 #
Aug 14, 2017 12:33:38 #
blackest wrote:
Anyone seen these on brightside.me ?
Can't say I have and do not now!
Aug 14, 2017 12:36:18 #
Aug 14, 2017 13:03:26 #
blackest wrote:
Anyone seen these on brightside.me ?
Ha! Black and white images do not qualify ?
Aug 14, 2017 13:36:50 #
Some are very good; others, meh. Who says they're the best photos ever taken?
Aug 14, 2017 14:01:57 #
Aug 14, 2017 14:21:51 #
ricardo7
Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile
I can find you 100 better pictures that were made before 1900.
Aug 14, 2017 14:23:06 #
ricardo7 wrote:
I can find you 100 better pictures that were made before 1900.
Aug 14, 2017 15:34:24 #
ricardo7 wrote:
I can find you 100 better pictures that were made before 1900.
Even easier if you use all the photos ever taken on film.
Aug 14, 2017 15:36:45 #
DWU2 wrote:
Some are very good; others, meh. Who says they're the best photos ever taken?
The website but if there is stuff you do like then the photographers sites are linked in the captions.
Aug 14, 2017 16:30:51 #
Aug 14, 2017 18:34:15 #
Great photographs were made by great photographer long before the advent of Photo Shop, during the present era of Photo Shop and other digital editing systems and will continue to be made perhaps in the future when Photo Shop and other digital digital editing systems will be considered antiquities of the past. Perhaps the term "Photoshop" has become misconceived by many photographers and non-photographers. It it has connotations of massive manipulation of photographic imagery or worse, a remedy for sloppy camera work that can turn poor photography into art. To me, and many other photographers, our editing programs are simply our digital darkrooms. Making digitally imaged photographs without some kind of software makes no sense, it would be like shooting film without a darkroom or even without a photofinishing lab or facility develop and/or print our images.
When we expose film there is a latent image on the sensitized material that needs to be chemically developed where by the silver halides in the emulation are chemically converted to metallic silver, thus forming the image. The negative is fixed, washed and dyed and subsequently printed on a paper based photograph material and processed much the same as film. I know this is very basic and rudimentary but my point is that there is a PROCESS. In electronic or digital image making ,the image forms on the camera's sensor and the digital information need to be somehow interpreted or processed so that it can be viewed, transmitted or printed in some form, otherwise the only way we can see and enjoy the image is on the cameras small LCD screen. So...Photo Shop, Lightroom and others are just part of the PROCESS.
In film work we often create proofs or contact prints in order to pick, choose and asses the images we we wish o print. The basic gal in good negative making is to produce negatives that will print easily with the tonality and dynamic range we wish to achieve. Some photographers utilize very precise exposure/development methodologies such as the zone system. A well exposed and processed negative should produce a high quality print with a minimum of manipulation. Sometimes photographs that were made under difficult conditions may require many manipulations such as forced procession, a great deal of manual control during the enlarging process- dodging, burning in, flashing, local treatment with concentrated developers, bleaching and the use of especially selected contrast grades of paper. A more ideal negative can usually be successfully printed to high aesthetic standards with just a bit of tweaking. Likewise, a well made digital file should make a fine screen image or print with a minimal degree of manipulation in Photo Shop or other system It should no be necessary to make endless layers of correction if the original file is well crafted as to exposure, use of lighting control and nicely composed.
Even grand masters like Ansil Adams and Edward Weston did quite a bit of custom printing- lots is burning and dodging. Weston, for future reference, stored his negatives in glassine envelopes with printing control diagrams, inscribed on the envelopes, indicating the areas that were dodged or burned. After his death, his son was able to continue printing his images to the original standards. Of course we can refine out composition through judicious cropping,
When we made analog prints we would select a paper of the the appropriate contrast grade, the image tone and surface texture of our choice and use a print developer that would produce the coolness or warmth of our choice. In Photo Shop we can apply many of the same controls through electronic/digital means. In most cases, a good file makes a good screen image or print.
The misunderstood term "Photoshop" has replaced the misunderstood term "airbrushed" thought of as radically altered imagery- fakery -etc. when all it is is a legitimate part of the process.
When we expose film there is a latent image on the sensitized material that needs to be chemically developed where by the silver halides in the emulation are chemically converted to metallic silver, thus forming the image. The negative is fixed, washed and dyed and subsequently printed on a paper based photograph material and processed much the same as film. I know this is very basic and rudimentary but my point is that there is a PROCESS. In electronic or digital image making ,the image forms on the camera's sensor and the digital information need to be somehow interpreted or processed so that it can be viewed, transmitted or printed in some form, otherwise the only way we can see and enjoy the image is on the cameras small LCD screen. So...Photo Shop, Lightroom and others are just part of the PROCESS.
In film work we often create proofs or contact prints in order to pick, choose and asses the images we we wish o print. The basic gal in good negative making is to produce negatives that will print easily with the tonality and dynamic range we wish to achieve. Some photographers utilize very precise exposure/development methodologies such as the zone system. A well exposed and processed negative should produce a high quality print with a minimum of manipulation. Sometimes photographs that were made under difficult conditions may require many manipulations such as forced procession, a great deal of manual control during the enlarging process- dodging, burning in, flashing, local treatment with concentrated developers, bleaching and the use of especially selected contrast grades of paper. A more ideal negative can usually be successfully printed to high aesthetic standards with just a bit of tweaking. Likewise, a well made digital file should make a fine screen image or print with a minimal degree of manipulation in Photo Shop or other system It should no be necessary to make endless layers of correction if the original file is well crafted as to exposure, use of lighting control and nicely composed.
Even grand masters like Ansil Adams and Edward Weston did quite a bit of custom printing- lots is burning and dodging. Weston, for future reference, stored his negatives in glassine envelopes with printing control diagrams, inscribed on the envelopes, indicating the areas that were dodged or burned. After his death, his son was able to continue printing his images to the original standards. Of course we can refine out composition through judicious cropping,
When we made analog prints we would select a paper of the the appropriate contrast grade, the image tone and surface texture of our choice and use a print developer that would produce the coolness or warmth of our choice. In Photo Shop we can apply many of the same controls through electronic/digital means. In most cases, a good file makes a good screen image or print.
The misunderstood term "Photoshop" has replaced the misunderstood term "airbrushed" thought of as radically altered imagery- fakery -etc. when all it is is a legitimate part of the process.
Aug 14, 2017 20:07:39 #
LFingar wrote:
Those are the 100 best, huh? Which definition of "best" is being used?
maybe the 100 best on a single web page. some sites would have you click after every image :)
I noticed a fair number used a vertical split from the orange/yellow deck chairs the military/civilian Central Park/ New York. I guess its kind of a yin yang idea.
Did any of them stand out for you? Maybe that is a good test , which made an impression.
Aug 14, 2017 20:25:22 #
I think there were quite a few good pictures in the bunch. How many do we see today without PhotoShop work.?According to those who subscribe they are all using the latest features to bring their images to fruition. :)
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Aug 14, 2017 21:07:35 #
blackest wrote:
maybe the 100 best on a single web page. some sites would have you click after every image :)
I noticed a fair number used a vertical split from the orange/yellow deck chairs the military/civilian Central Park/ New York. I guess its kind of a yin yang idea.
Did any of them stand out for you? Maybe that is a good test , which made an impression.
I noticed a fair number used a vertical split from the orange/yellow deck chairs the military/civilian Central Park/ New York. I guess its kind of a yin yang idea.
Did any of them stand out for you? Maybe that is a good test , which made an impression.
Quite a few were good. A few were exceptional, and quite a few were mediocre. That's just my opinion, of course, which coincides with my opinion that "Best" lists are rather meaningless. It usually comes down to personal taste. My favorite? That would be the volcanic eruption. Very dramatic.
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