Landscape Pro Software - Before & After Image
Feb 5, 2017 19:21:56 #
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
Who cares? Art is subjective. If you find the final result pleasing, what difference does it make?
Thanks for your comment. I do like the end result.
Feb 5, 2017 19:22:59 #
ken_stern wrote:
I of course have nothing at all against what you did -- Actually Nice Effort - However -- From my personal perspective which only includes anything ever coming out of my camera ---
I just don't like it --
I say the real challenge is try shooting for the "real thing"
I just don't like it --
I say the real challenge is try shooting for the "real thing"
Thanks for looking.
Feb 5, 2017 19:29:04 #
Pixelpusher wrote:
NormantheGr8"" So your a graphic artist... (show quote)
Thanks for your comments! I hope you will start reposting here again. Interesting images should always be welcome.
Feb 5, 2017 22:06:57 #
In my opinion, you took a kind of ho hum photo and used it as a base for creating a more interesting, much more colorful and pleasing image. As long as it's not misrepresented, it's simply having fun and being creative. Artists do that all the time. Use multiple photos as references and combine them into the painting that they imagine in their mind. You did a great job!
Feb 6, 2017 08:15:00 #
LorrieLynn wrote:
In my opinion, you took a kind of ho hum photo and used it as a base for creating a more interesting, much more colorful and pleasing image. As long as it's not misrepresented, it's simply having fun and being creative. Artists do that all the time. Use multiple photos as references and combine them into the painting that they imagine in their mind. You did a great job!
Thanks LorrieLynn - that is exactly the way I approached this image. I tend to view camera bodies, lenses, filters, and software as tools that you can apply to an image to make it your own. I just don't feel that the raw image is sacrosanct, but I'm okay if others do. In this instance, I had an idea as to what I wanted the end result to look like, and was curious to see if I could do it. I think its fun to start a shoot with an idea, and then see if you can make that happen.
In this photo, the only elements that were not actually present were the lightning bolts. They were added because I wasn't satisfied with the sky. Everything else (sand, rocks, water) was there on that grey morning at the shore.
I would encourage everyone to exercise their creativity, and not feel constrained because others may feel differently.
Feb 6, 2017 11:02:08 #
yssirk123 wrote:
Still playing around with Anthropics' LandscapePro software. Had some free time one overcast morning, so I took a ride to the Jersey shore. It was a pretty overcast day, but I thought it might be fun to grab some images and see what could be done with them. The before is the orginal image; the after was run through LandscapePro, Photoshop and Topaz Adjust.
I like the enhancement, but the lightning bolts look fake to me.
Feb 6, 2017 11:51:46 #
gvarner
Loc: Central Oregon Coast
It looks artificial, so if that's the goal, it's well done. Don't mean to be harsh but you asked.
Feb 6, 2017 12:50:38 #
willaim wrote:
I like the enhancement, but the lightning bolts look fake to me.
Thanks for looking!
Feb 6, 2017 12:51:58 #
gvarner wrote:
It looks artificial, so if that's the goal, it's well done. Don't mean to be harsh but you asked.
Thanks for looking!
Feb 6, 2017 14:23:59 #
I love Post Processing! You've made that photo explode from the page. Good job.
Feb 6, 2017 14:37:56 #
Flyerace wrote:
I love Post Processing! You've made that photo explode from the page. Good job.
Thanks Flyerace! I appreciate your comment.
Feb 6, 2017 22:49:48 #
Feb 7, 2017 00:37:26 #
...it's art! YOU are the artist. Art being what it is, will always engender positive and negative comments...such is life. As photographers in the present, we are gifted with a plethora of tools to use for our art...I like to think the great photographic artists of the past, given a time window to see what we have now, would be envious! But, of course, there would be the naysayers...heh...
Feb 7, 2017 13:28:10 #
Feb 7, 2017 13:31:07 #
chasgroh wrote:
...it's art! YOU are the artist. Art being what it is, will always engender positive and negative comments...such is life. As photographers in the present, we are gifted with a plethora of tools to use for our art...I like to think the great photographic artists of the past, given a time window to see what we have now, would be envious! But, of course, there would be the naysayers...heh...
Thanks Charlie - I agree completely. I appreciate all the tools available to us today, and intend to continue having fun using them.
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