Fake Landscape Photography

[wasserball]

I am breaking down. I am not a purist anymore. There are many powerful landscape software available that can turn a non interesting photograph into the look of a dreaded post card. Here is an example of a fake cloudy sky.

 

[Bing Chow]

Who cares what other people use, how they faked it, or why they do it? Just worry about your own photography. Be as authentic as you want to be, tell your own stories, and choose your own adventure.

 

[Billstek]

But watch out for the Photo Police!

 

[Brian D3300]

I am breaking down. I am not a purist anymore. There are many powerful landscape software available that can turn a non interesting photograph into the look of a dreaded post card. Here is an example of a fake cloudy sky.

What is fake about this picture? Did you delete some poor cows out of it?

 

[gavin]

Yes, but all photos are post processed even in film days. Ansel Adams did it back then.

 

[wasserball]

I am breaking down. I am not a purist anymore. There are many powerful landscape software available that can turn a non interesting photograph into the look of a dreaded post card. Here is an example of a fake cloudy sky.

What is fake about this picture? Did you delete some poor cows out of it?

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/134376641@N08/

The entire sky got replaced It was a bland simi cloudy day. Funny, I told the cows to go away.

 

[wasserball]

Yes, but all photos are post processed even in film days. Ansel Adams did it back then.

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My photos are at https://www.flickr.com/photos/gavinz

The entire sky got replaced. Did he know how to cut and paste?

 

[Adrian Messenger]

Hi Wasserball,

Am curious. Did the software enhance what was in the image, or create something that wasn't in the image?

 

[Brian D3300]

Yes, but all photos are post processed even in film days. Ansel Adams did it back then.

 

[wasserball]

Hi Wasserball,

Am curious. Did the software enhance what was in the image, or create something that wasn't in the image?

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thanks, AM

Just like I responded to the other curious posters, the entire sky got replaced. Those are fake clouds. Sorry, I wanted to post the original as well, but it was so plain that I deleted it.

 

[Billstek]

I think it boils down to whether you are telling viewers things are real whennthey aren't, especially in competition. Do what you want. After all it's art. Just don't pass it off as documentary or journalism. If it's art try to evoke a feeling, then I say anything goes.

 

[wasserball]

I think it boils down to whether you are telling viewers things are real whennthey aren't, especially in competition. Do what you want. After all it's art. Just don't pass it off as documentary or journalism. If it's art try to evoke a feeling, then I say anything goes.

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www.justofftheroad.smugmug.com

It was never my intention to deceive. I suspect in competition, there are certain rules you follow, maybe not. I am beginning to accept that photography is no longer a medium to transfer what I saw to what you see. There are powerful software that can change an ugly face to one that can grace a magazine cover, body software that can transform a fat person into a Jack LaLanne fitness guru, You no longer need to be versed in photoshop to make drastic changes. That's what I am saying. A photograph is just a base for you to become an artist.

 

[drh681]

or were the clouds a stock image you composited in?

 

[wasserball]

or were the clouds a stock image you composited in?

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And don't walk in front of a moving bus.
Unless it's going backwards.
Then walking in front is the smart move.

I think this is my 5th time to answer that. Yes, it is stock. It is fake, It replaced the original bland sky. It looks very dramatic.

 

[NickZ2016]

Yes, but all photos are post processed even in film days. Ansel Adams did it back then.

 

[wasserball]

Who cares what other people use, how they faked it, or why they do it? Just worry about your own photography. Be as authentic as you want to be, tell your own stories, and choose your own adventure.

 

[Billstek]

I agree.

 

[Chris Wolfgram]

The most natural, lightly processed shot one could ever imagine, taken by the most hard-core purist, is still a 100% fake, of the original !

That is a piece of electronic hardware your looking at, "not" a window.

 

[calson]

All good landcape photographs have been manipulated going back 200 years. Ansel Adams manipulated the negative with his exposures and processing times and choice of chemicals and manipulated the print heavily in the darkroom.All B&W pictures provide a distortion of reality but to artistic advantage (hopefully).

Going back to the 1800's it was commonplace for photographs to take an interesting sky and superimpose it on a landscape photograph and to not do so was considered the mark of a rank amateur. We do much the same with the use of filters with both B&W and color photography that make clouds more dramatic.

What is not good is when something like HDR is used to amp up an otherwise boring image that is poorly composed or the subject is lacking in interest.

 

[wasserball]

You are behind time if filters are all you use. Check out what a couple of keystrokes can do to a boring picture look more dramatic.