My whole life has been spent not following the rules .., in photography .. I don’t abide by composition , natural color , or a specific reality of the shot ...I take and edit a shot the way I like it and generally can’t be happier than when I like it ..
Most of my life has been as a product designer and packaging designer .. , so I View so many of my finished works as an ad that I would see on a poster , packaging , or n ad .
Picture the Mighty Mo Shot as presented .. and picture it printed as such on say a clothe bag you buy at the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center .., It would catch your eye , and be unique , and would move a few bags ..
Or the same shot printed on a T - shirt ...
Years ago, I created , designed and marketed the biggest selling Hawaiian Board game of all time called “HAWAII THE ALOHA GAME”. The Governor Of Hawaii had me present and autograph , at his request , 2 of the board games to the presidential Family (Clinton’s) ..At the Governors lounge while they were here in Hawaii .. Parker Brothers said at my booth in the New York toy show , that my board game was the most Well done use of colors and graphics they have ever seen .. this was in the 90’s and I used 7 color printing ,
I find regular natural photographs to be boring ..cany .., yours don’t fit that category .., and I follow your work along with A dozen others on the blog .. I have done some natural ., by what I can consider my natural look , I just posted today a shot I took last week of Aloha Tower ..that version is what I call my natural look ..
I have always liked the pizzaz .., color and Brilliant presentation of ads and art work ... and gravitate towards them .. Generally I like to produce shots that are somewhere between a photo and artful presentations .. , I do photo editing for clients all,over the world and have had no complaints ... one is a travel,magazine photographer who has neither the time nor patients to edit .., so he sends them to me.. of course .. being a travel,magazine .. the pictures need to be a little more than “el natural” .., the sea color .. skies .. all must be overblown a tad to convey to the traveler the beauty awaiting them at such and such a destination ..
I halve done photo restoration for years and enjoy the delight of the senders emotions at the results ..
I get photos emailed to me while the client is on a ship .., has a bunch of shots to share with newfound onboard friends and the ship is docking in two days .. the best shots of the cruise /and friends didn’t all turn out too well and the client wants me to fix them and get them back to him before the ship docks .. (RUSH JOB) .., and be able to get said shots to the friends before they leave the ship ..
Anyway .., I have done what I would call some beautiful work and posted it on this Hog blog .., and a lot was classed as overblown / too saturated and unnatural.., and some were very well received .., but that’s how I do it ..
My good stuff gets 2-3 thousand views and I’m happy with that .., my last post a week ago .., the B&W of the Golden Gate Bridge and the fog .., seemed to be a winner .. my Yosemite Tunnel Views generally are not bad ..
My Arizona Memorial shots .., well they are a stretch , . but beautiful ... unlike anyone else’s .. My “Waikiki Wave” posted a few days ago ...well .. I yet to see anyone Match it .., Shot at that location , in the history of the Hogg .., But again .., shot and edited my way .. I had a local,artist ask if they had my permission to paint it on canvas .., I said, have at it ..!
It is easy to shoot “el Natural’ .., and post it with the slightest of post editing , but I work at doing what I do as “THAT’S Me... I am thankful you asked , and the answer is I just do,it a certain way .. like an artist who just finished some art and says “ Finished > ! Hope some like it .., some won’t .. the Nitch that does .., why that’s my reward ..
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