POST PROCESSING IS AN ARTISTIC EXTENSION
Feb 20, 2017 11:03:54 #
Photography is a visual art. As photographers we can choose to merely capture images or we can choose to massage those images with an added message we wish to make. You take a picture with a camera. You make a picture in post-processing.
Feb 20, 2017 11:11:56 #
cdayton wrote:
This topic keeps arising - where are the posts advocating absolutely no PP? This seems like kicking the proverbial dead equine. But in response to tdekany, one does get lucky. This is an iPad download from my P900 shot in the Sagrada Familia last October. I was tempted to straighten it but kinda like the tilt.
I meant from those individuals, the op is talking about. I didn't say you can't get a good shot SOOC. Just that those who have made such statements in the past on UHH that I have read, every one of them were snap shot shooters. So far.
Feb 20, 2017 11:20:26 #
Yes it is an art. These days it is becoming viewed more as an art than it was 50 years ago when it truly was an art because of the real labor that went into it as well as the chemical magic that created it.
Feb 20, 2017 11:24:18 #
Thanks, glad you liked it. I took the moon picture a couple of months ago when the moon was closest to earth just like everyone else did and it was just a picture of the moon and it was OK. but I wanted something more. I started going through all the photos that I have (60 plus years worth) till I found the right one and yes I did try to put the moon between his hands (many have asked the same question) but I wanted the moon to be really large. While it is art, it still is a photograph much like a montage. I looked up the actual definition of montage and it is the process or technique of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole. --- So I guess it actually is a montage. Anyway, glad you liked it. Thanks tor the constructive question and comment.
Delderby wrote:
Hi Smudgey - great picture. When you combine two photos - would you still call the result a photo - or would you call it a picture? Perhaps it is time to think of a new noun for such art?
PS - did you try putting the moon between the statues hands? Del.
PS - did you try putting the moon between the statues hands? Del.
Feb 20, 2017 11:28:12 #
I completely agree, would like to see it when you finish it.
Gene51 wrote:
Feb 20, 2017 11:32:04 #
You are right about Ansell Adams and world famous painters ..... i dont remember seeing distractions in their work from the subject matter like light wires , street garbage or a pimple on the mona lisa ..... seeing a lopsided body of water makes my eyes hurt...... you also make a lotta brownie points with the ladies to rid them of a few wrinkles ....... part of the craft learn it !!!!...... photography tells a story .. anything that is not a part of the story should be cropped ..... a good shot us viewd for usually 3 sec .... very good 5 sec ..... Omg.... they can't stop looking ....... the flipthru's are straight out of the camera.... 95 % like most point and shoot's .....
Feb 20, 2017 11:36:16 #
I was a 35mm slide photographer as well as B&W and film photographer and some cameras would let you make double and triple exposure that would allow you to create interesting multiple images, but it was much harder, with less control.
donrosshill wrote:
Regardless of what you produce, it is still an IMAGE. Photograph, Painting, Digital Art, Etc. They are all IMAGES.
We produce Images as an expression of what we want to present.
We produce Images as an expression of what we want to present.
Feb 20, 2017 11:49:29 #
Ansel spoke the truth.
Fotoartist wrote:
Photography is a visual art. As photographers we can choose to merely capture images or we can choose to massage those images with an added message we wish to make. You take a picture with a camera. You make a picture in post-processing.
Feb 20, 2017 11:58:38 #
There is a difference between what we see and what is actually there. Among other things, PP allows us to remove stuff that was there but we didn't see.
Feb 20, 2017 12:15:54 #
Nice job
Howard5252 wrote:
Really, never saw a decent image made from two separate photos? Try this link: http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-419478-1.html
Feb 20, 2017 12:49:00 #
My art teacher in college said, all things created by man is art. The question" is it good or bad."
Feb 20, 2017 13:01:37 #
This reminds me of photo history class talki g about the pictorialists vs the f64 group in the 1930s. Just do what you have to in order to get the image you want. Make images, not war!
Feb 20, 2017 13:33:43 #
mikegreenwald
Loc: Illinois
dpullum wrote:
Tuesday I am going to a painting and drawing group... (show quote)
You better hope it was menopause - not Typhus or worse!
Feb 20, 2017 14:36:23 #
Feb 20, 2017 14:36:37 #
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