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Was out on the Fan Deck at US Cellular Field (Chicago) last night, with nothing but a lousy BlackBerry Curve 8320 (and I do mean lousy when it comes to the camera). Forget realism in trying to salvage an image from a gorgeous post-storm sky above the ballpark (I'm no great fan of realism anyway) -- here's the "artistic" result after lots of CNX2 (and a little PSCS3). Am I nuts in thinking there's something OK about this pic??



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AviBen
 
if you were going for a grainy, low rez, over photoshopped image you succeeded.

QL2
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'To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.' ~ Jean-
Paul Sartre
 
Karld & QL2, you are both absolutely right! The iphone is undoubtedly a better camera (!), and I was indeed going for just the trashy look of over-processed garbage that QL2 so eloquently described. (Of course, I may need therapy to overcome the shame of the criticism my artwork is attracting.) I think I'd better blame someone else -- perhaps I should contact Research in Motion right away and complain about the camera in the phone -- let them know that I've suffered damages by being forced to use expensive post-processing software to try to salvage the terrible substandard images their second-rate technology made me take. Perhaps we can make this a class action -- how about posting your own miserable cellphone images, preferably with lots of post-processing to obliterate the original image!!
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AviBen
 
Kudos, and God bless you Q !
quicklook2 said:
if you were going for a grainy, low rez, over photoshopped image you succeeded.

QL2
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'To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.' ~ Jean-
Paul Sartre
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I’m just kidding with you, because you said “BlackBerry forever!” not sure if my phone takes a better picture. My phone is better to watch a movie, and yours is better for email, they both have their strengths. My brother is a diehard berry guy, I’m just use to kidding around about it with him. :-O
AviBen2 said:
Karld & QL2, you are both absolutely right! The iphone is undoubtedly a better camera (!), and I was indeed going for just the trashy look of over-processed garbage that QL2 so eloquently described. (Of course, I may need therapy to overcome the shame of the criticism my artwork is attracting.) I think I'd better blame someone else -- perhaps I should contact Research in Motion right away and complain about the camera in the phone -- let them know that I've suffered damages by being forced to use expensive post-processing software to try to salvage the terrible substandard images their second-rate technology made me take. Perhaps we can make this a class action -- how about posting your own miserable cellphone images, preferably with lots of post-processing to obliterate the original image!!
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AviBen
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I think it's pretty cool too.
BUT I don't need to ask what model Blackberry, I'll stick with my D300 : )
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Leo
 
I would crop the heads out in the forground. Decent pict. I know what you mean.
 
--It's not always the camera but the eye that sees what he/she wants the camera to take an image of. Nice shot
c photo
 
Thanks, everyone. (And, about the heads in front, I really like them there. I did crop out a couple of tops of heads that were to the left and right, which didn't have as much definition as the ones I left in, and were detracting from the image.)
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AviBen
 
Nice one!

I've tried things the other way, but the reception on my D300 is ghastly...

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'Cheer up!' they said.
'It could be worse!' they said.
So I did.
And it was.
 
It's good. It's better than I would have done with a D300. At least with a cell phone, you have no compunctions about ripping into the image in Photoshop. That allowed you to interpret the picture freely, with a quite original result.
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Leonard Migliore
 
. . . for tinted monochrome
AviBen2 said:
Was out on the Fan Deck at US Cellular Field (Chicago) last night, with nothing but a lousy BlackBerry Curve 8320 (and I do mean lousy when it comes to the camera). Forget realism in trying to salvage an image from a gorgeous post-storm sky above the ballpark (I'm no great fan of realism anyway) -- here's the "artistic" result after lots of CNX2 (and a little PSCS3). Am I nuts in thinking there's something OK about this pic??
http://www.pbase.com/image/114770359.jpg
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Neat grainy look. It's what I imagine shots would look like if Tri-X was pushed a stop or two too far and then got Ted Turner's colorization treatment.
 
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