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nickoly
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Are they real, or what?
Louis_Dobson
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Oh yes. Done by a poster on here. Some will be MFT I assume.
Far too good, it makes me sick...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/acam
http://thegentlemansnapper.blogspot.com
Far too good, it makes me sick...
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/acam
http://thegentlemansnapper.blogspot.com
Yohan Pamudji
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Doesn't he post here? I can't remember his DPR username though.
Guy Parsons
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Real places but obviously heavily cooked in post process. Most would look good as large wall prints, but are not quite reality of course.
Despite any objections to the degree of cooking, they look good. A quick look at a few and sometimes graduated filters were used.
Regards..... Guy
Louis_Dobson
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photo world is awash with such WOW stuff and it is almost at a point of (pardon pun) saturation methinks..I often look and admire but then i look away. Can't quite pin the turnoff..perhaps its photographs as predictable product? Great stuff none the less!
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Best Wishes Billy
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Best Wishes Billy
gulffish
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Guy Parsons
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It reminds me of my camera club days where people were striving to impress judges. After a while the style gets very predictable and if presented with a wall of camera club and of normal people's shots, it is easy to pick the camera clubbers.
Post process cooking is fun & impressive for some shots, but the same scene in real life never looks like that. It's altering the shot to reflect what the photographer wanted to see. Sorry, but I'm a reality fanboy, that's why your plant and flower shots look OK to me.
Regards........... Guy
Post process cooking is fun & impressive for some shots, but the same scene in real life never looks like that. It's altering the shot to reflect what the photographer wanted to see. Sorry, but I'm a reality fanboy, that's why your plant and flower shots look OK to me.
Regards........... Guy
its the same in just about any of the 'arts'...the garden world is no different. Open just about any garden related magazine/books etc and the same level of PP seems to be applied to (the gardens) the predictable formula's ..very often a 'look' with very little substance beyond copy cat copy cat. Thanks.
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Best Wishes Billy
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Best Wishes Billy
dko22
Leading Member
photo.net has quite a lot of landscapes like this -- they certainly have impact and the best from this collection are really good and not tasteless as can be the case. And yet, yes, there is something of a feeling that this has all been done before, particularly in the compositions which are rather formulaic. Indeed, exactly what judges like in my photo club as well which is one reason I have taken a break to study a short course at Art college in the hope I can one day produce something which is recognizably mine --something which is very hard to do!
Unfortunately it has so far failed to cure me form GAS and forums and perhaps never will.....
David
AlextheSiberian
Leading Member
Wow! is right! I sure would like to learn the trick of exposing like that. Now, how do you think he achieved this:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6650766
Is it zoning or a clever use of ND filters or pure post-processing?
I'd love to learn his techniques!
Sincerely jealous Alex
Please!
Oops! And I'm talking to the Siberian! Colors aqnd sun forsooth!
Cheers, geoff
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Geoffrey Heard
http://pngtimetraveller.blogspot.com/2011/10/return-to-karai-komana_31.html
Oops! And I'm talking to the Siberian! Colors aqnd sun forsooth!
Cheers, geoff
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Geoffrey Heard
http://pngtimetraveller.blogspot.com/2011/10/return-to-karai-komana_31.html
Marla2008
Senior Member
In its glorious predictability. Could I do the same ? Heck no ! Do I wish I could ? Hmm.. Maybe, maybe not. Great PP skills but didn't give me the start of one emotion, it's all been done a thousand times before. For all we know those images could be entirely computer generated, we'd never know the difference...
That's flawless technic without a hint of poetry, like a perfect body with zero sex appeal.
That's flawless technic without a hint of poetry, like a perfect body with zero sex appeal.
AlextheSiberian
Leading Member
Geoff, sorry mate, but care to elaborate? I didn't get your comment
Do you mean his images are overdone? As someone, who does little to no PPing, the grass always seems greener on the other side. I was imply impressed with the way both the sky and the foreground are properly exposed....
I find that my biggest challenge!
Alex
Well, they are just too much for my taste, too saturated, too well too much of everything.
They are kitsch in the end.
I prefer more natural renderings and subjects showing our world as it is, not like the page of a monthly calendar, nor like a postcard.
rrr_hhh
They are kitsch in the end.
I prefer more natural renderings and subjects showing our world as it is, not like the page of a monthly calendar, nor like a postcard.
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rrr_hhh
Yohan Pamudji
Senior Member
Well, you know what they say about opinions...
Ellen 1
Leading Member
I think the HDR program has been used on a lot of them. i do think they look stunning though.
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