Fun? How dare you have fun?!
Photography is serious, and is about accurately capturing an image of the situation without personal bias. Forensic accuracy is required. Fun is for children.
Cheeze. Come on Kev, get with the program.
Michael
Good composition of the original scene ......................... Ugly representation of the same scene. Art is not always in the eye of the beholder!
This Kevin is a picture I called up every single day since you posted it. There was another one by Yat Lee from Jack Flesher's forum that had the same intruiging effect on me, here shot with a technical-camera also using the IQ 260.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yatlee/9577614910/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yatlee/9577614910/)
It is this "something" I strive to achieve ever since I started photography, here for example a mid day shot of Gweebara river in Ireland, taken with a humble Olympus E1, a 5MP camera, hence nearly a decade ago, and boy was this fun ;D
I would not hesitate to hang this Dolomites shot in my crip as a 60 inch wide print. Stunning!
Best
Georg
"Digital Photography Is Painting" (http://books.google.com/books?id=5VwUAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT28&dq=%22the%20way%20of%20the%20digital%20photographer%22&pg=PT28#v=snippet&q=%22Digital%20Photography%20Is%20Painting%22&f=false)
Isaac you are guilty of getting me to spend another £22 on a photo book...
I do not understand the "aggressive" tone of some posts, with words like "ugly"... for sure the image is not to everybody's taste, but that is precisely the point?
The scene is wonderful, with the rolling hills, barn, mountains, and sky.
The public libraries in Silicon Valley thrive -- I guess that isn't true in the UK.
The public libraries in Silicon Valley thrive -- I guess that isn't true in the UK.
You obviously haven't been in a Library in Scotland? World war 2 books have yet to make it into the history section. ;)
You obviously haven't been in a Library in Scotland?
Coming back to reality...
A question on the 4-row panoramic stitch. First, if I guess right, that's 4 rows and given the width, looks about 10 shots wide making 40 photographs. Even using the lowest end IQ back, that's 1.6GP. If you're using the 80MP backs, that's 3.2GP. What sort of laptop do you have in the field with you to process *that*? (Heck, even if you had access to some sort of cloud computing to massage all that data for you, it'd take forever to upload and download it all.) Does that even fit on one CF card?
Kevin,...Please can you tell us a bit more about why you gave this particular treatment to your Dolomite shots?
On face value it seems very unlikely that an experienced craftsman would 'sex-up', or 'Disneyfy' such landscapes......there MUST have been reason to use "fun processing" despite the already graphic appearance of large tracts of the Dolomites, but I am genuinely ignorant of why you would do so and would very much like to know. Obviously, you are not short of intelligence, good equipement, experience, skills or emotions,...So, Why? I can understand that you did not wish to simply pursue a documentary approach, but why give this area of mid-Europe a semi-tropical look at complete odds with the region?
....Genuinely just inbterested and hoping to learn something!
Or is it more about having fun with the viewer?A curious thing to do. Such grossly over processed images don't reflect well on the originator with many photographers I know.
Don't we all enjoy winding people up?No.
No.
Humourless eh?I'm not without a sense of humour.
A curious thing to do. Such grossly over processed images don't reflect well on the originator with many photographers I know.
It comes down to whether they are trying to create art using their photographs or create a photograph that is a piece of art.
It comes down to whether they are trying to create art using their photographs or create a photograph that is a piece of art.