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Magical photos from Russia. Seriously good.

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MisterBG said:
DWare said:
Also, some have commented that she has over-cooked a few images ... Would like to see an example of what is thought to have been too processed.
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This one for a start:

http://www.boredpanda.com/animal-ch...l-children-photography-elena-shumilova-33.jpg
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What exactly looks over-cooked? I lived first 30 years of my life in Russia and can confirm that almost 6 months of every year weather, snow and night scene look exactly like that. I agree, that she might fixed something there in processing, but when fixed it looks more natural than camera can catch. She is very talented in both art and photography.
 
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Look down below all of the images in the original link. Find the comments started by Louise Lamb. This series of 122 comments identifies many of the post processing effects that happen including adding ripples in water that weren't there originally, etc. I suspect the photographer was an expert in Photoshop long before she took up photography and her "art" is as much on display as is her photography. To be sure, she has a great eye for photography and I love what she's producing.

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sean lancaster said:
Look down below all of the images in the original link. Find the comments started by Louise Lamb. This series of 122 comments identifies many of the post processing effects that happen including adding ripples in water that weren't there originally, etc. I suspect the photographer was an expert in Photoshop long before she took up photography and her "art" is as much on display as is her photography. To be sure, she has a great eye for photography and I love what she's producing.
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Timbukto said:
canonagain123 said:
topstuff said:
There is a lot of PP in these.

But that is not a complaint. The end result is very attractive.

As someone who is not as good at PS as I wish to be, these images make me want to fire up photoshop and be better at it...

I think I should go on a course...
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This is why I refrained from writing a comment. I wasn't sure how to word it without it sounding like a complaint. They really were quite processed, but still almost within acceptable limits. They're quite beautiful, most of them, but some of them suffered a little from overprocessing.
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Do you guys think she applied any additional shallow DOF effect by blurring the background further in post compared to what the 135 f2 can naturally achieve? I get the feeling she did. I have absolutely no problem with that btw, I even do that with my Olympus XZ-1...I just am left wondering on the PP techniques.
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I think that several of the photos are composed with a shot of the subject and the other of a background

Nice work if you like this kind of PS.

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If I'd been as good, I could go outdoors right now, here in Sweden, and take a photo that would look like that without any post-processing. I agree, thats what it looks like up here. Whats difficult is to make it look so good on a photo. Thats a stunning photo, not overcooked.

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o_23 said:
MisterBG said:
DWare said:
Also, some have commented that she has over-cooked a few images ... Would like to see an example of what is thought to have been too processed.
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This one for a start:

http://www.boredpanda.com/animal-ch...l-children-photography-elena-shumilova-33.jpg
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What exactly looks over-cooked? I lived first 30 years of my life in Russia and can confirm that almost 6 months of every year weather, snow and night scene look exactly like that. I agree, that she might fixed something there in processing, but when fixed it looks more natural than camera can catch. She is very talented in both art and photography.
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It's a composite, quite well done though.
 
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sean lancaster said:
Look down below all of the images in the original link. Find the comments started by Louise Lamb. This series of 122 comments identifies many of the post processing effects that happen including adding ripples in water that weren't there originally, etc. I suspect the photographer was an expert in Photoshop long before she took up photography and her "art" is as much on display as is her photography. To be sure, she has a great eye for photography and I love what she's producing.
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KAllen said:
It's like all things, you still need to see what you want to achieve as an end result. So Photshop for me on this is great. We can all see it, having the vision of the complete finished image is the skill.

Just like printing in a darkroom used to be, some people could look at a print and know it wasn't what they were after, but knowing how to get what they want or evening defining what they want was something else.

She hasn't just dabbled with stock filters until it looks nice, there is a style and clear goal to achieve what She has. Looks great to me.
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Agree, as art, they are great. For my personal family pictures, though, I like to record things as they actually are and stick to editing only things that are in the original capture.
 
actually as art they are rubbish...sickly sweet, totally staged and rather creepy....

as pp they are obviously well done... much better than I could ever do...

In wonder if she even has a family.....
 
Firstly I'd like to say that she has a great eye for "moments" and is a talented photographer, without wanting to sound rude in any way, my personal opinion of these shots are that 80% are totally staged, I love some of the close portraits and the ones with the dogs, but the others, to me anyway, look like composite images of a 2 or more shots especially all the lake shots.

This lady is a professional photographer and a photoshop expert for sure.

The light is lovely in the shots but for me immediately as I started scrolling through I could see huge amounts of photo-shopping, not knocking that because to 99% of the general public these shots will do exactly what they are designed to do - WOW them.

There are some glaring mistakes also, the shot of the boy looking out across the lake - the sky is completely cloudy yet the reflection on the water shows a partly cloudy sky with sunset light.

All that said though her gallery on 500px is incredible and it certainly has had a huge amour of views so good on her.

And to the poster that commented that the 5D mk 2 was "obsolete" ...pffft behave man! (bangs head against wall)
 
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These images are magnificent! Every one is exceptional.

Thanks for posting the link.
 
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