Faded Look photos
Mar 20, 2018 12:34:25 #
I've noticed more and more faded look photos showing up on sharing websites lately. Is this the new fad? I can see its use in commercial photos, but, to me, regular photos suffer - they look like someone hasn't learned their settings or focal points.
Mar 20, 2018 12:54:53 #
DavidPine
Loc: Fredericksburg, TX
In order to add an effect or get creative with an image, you must first have a good image. If you like "regular" then consider SOOC. Poor focal settings have nothing to do with artistic interpretation. Remember, variety is the spice of life.
Mar 20, 2018 13:31:48 #
DavidPine wrote:
In order to add an effect or get creative with an image, you must first have a good image. If you like "regular" then consider SOOC. Poor focal settings have nothing to do with artistic interpretation. Remember, variety is the spice of life.
Maybe it's just that I see so many of these that, just like the over-processed HDR landscapes, there are some who have mastered the technique AND the basics of photography and many who have not. SOOC photos are just as iffy. It just seems that lately there are so many more of these faded photos. The fading sometimes interferes with my being able to judge the other elements of good photography that may be in the photo.
Mar 20, 2018 14:31:42 #
Photographic trends come and go. For example, I remember a time when cross-processed images where everywhere, appearing on billboards and posters, in magazines, etc.
Mar 23, 2018 08:30:35 #
BlueMorel wrote:
I've noticed more and more faded look photos showing up on sharing websites lately. Is this the new fad? I can see its use in commercial photos, but, to me, regular photos suffer - they look like someone hasn't learned their settings or focal points.
Why does this matter?
If I don't like it, I skip on to the next one and don't try it myself.
Mar 23, 2018 08:56:02 #
RWR
Loc: La Mesa, CA
BlueMorel wrote:
I've noticed more and more faded look photos showing up on sharing websites lately. Is this the new fad? I can see its use in commercial photos, but, to me, regular photos suffer - they look like someone hasn't learned their settings or focal points.
Could be someone hasn’t learned how to lower their monitor’s brightness level!
Mar 23, 2018 09:08:26 #
What most likely happens is somebody posts a faded looking photo. Maybe it's a scan from an old faded photo. A thousand people see it, 50 like it, 5 decide to try and duplicate it. Now there are 6 faded pictures out there, possibly posted on additional sites where a different thousand people see them ... and the beat goes on. Eventually to someone who looks at a lot of pictures it seems to be a fad. In time the fad fades away and all will be right with the world ... until next time. 
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Mar 23, 2018 09:50:42 #
It's an example of taking the saturation down instead of over saturating an image. It's hot, especially in children's photography. Eventually, enough photographers will complain, and it will make anyone who does it a pariah, just like HDR, and before that, selective color.
Reminds me of the mullet hair cut. Everyone makes fun of it, but at one time, most guys had it. (I didn't, because of the "Jew Fro" but would have if I could have, because it was "cool" for the time. Even George Clooney had one. Now, it's something we all pretend that we are, and always were "above"
Reminds me of the mullet hair cut. Everyone makes fun of it, but at one time, most guys had it. (I didn't, because of the "Jew Fro" but would have if I could have, because it was "cool" for the time. Even George Clooney had one. Now, it's something we all pretend that we are, and always were "above"
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