Photo of the Week #167 27.07.13-02.08.13

jpb1974

When it boils down to it really don't give a shíte if I was being perfectly honest to myself. Likes, thanks and other blah... it's doesn't really matter other than maybe an ego boost or whatever.

I have an opinion on what matters to me, what photograph should be from my viewpoint and that's what I stand by and that's what I practice. Yeah, I've done the fake sky and HDR when I was a naïve young lad.. but you live, you learn, you change your tastes and you move on.

If you want to fly an F-16 through you kitchen in photoshop who am I to stop you? But if you think it's a genuine photograph the only person you're fooling is yourself. You can call it 'art' if you want.. but if you tell me it's a photograph I will argue with you a little.

OldGoat

If you get POTW or an HM with this image there will be hell to pay.
Thats why I voted twice.

dirtyghettokid

OldGoat wrote: »

If you get POTW or an HM with this image there will be hell to pay.
Thats why I voted twice.

jaysis on a bike, 29 likes! i'm regretting not putting the moon in there also now :P

DaireQuinlan

dirtyghettokid wrote: »

jaysis on a bike, 29 likes! i'm regretting not putting the moon in there also now :P

And Carton House

Zillah

dirtyghettokid wrote: »

jaysis on a bike, 29 likes! i'm regretting not putting the moon in there also now :P

The second I saw that photo I thought "Well this is obviously an experiment for the photoshop debate"

Mountainsandh

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

And Carton House

there's room for a homeless man on the right too. Or light trails from a bike ?

superflyninja

It needs more swans. HDR swans at that.

dirtyghettokid

yea, i was saying to daire on pix.ie that i tried to get it to look more HDR like, but i couldn't quite get it right. i don't really know how people do the HDR thing on a single exposure lol

DaireQuinlan

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

And Carton House

hahahaha, I hadn't even seen this contribution from keps when I posted the above

dirtyghettokid

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

hahahaha, I hadn't even seen this contribution from keps when I posted the above

it's hilarious. we should put it in a separate thread, and allow people to keep adding objects to it

Mountainsandh

motion blur the bottom of Carton House into the scene.

dinneenp

Wow! Over 100 comments, mainly on the Moon photo. Debate is good.
Imagine if the next photo of the week contains a HDR photo!

fret_wimp2

How much of the tweaking you do in photoshop comes directly from techniques used in the dark room?

Brightness, Contrast, saturation, hue, saturation, blow up, crop and a bunch of other "effects" or "Post processing" was done in dark rooms manually for years.

But now as its done on a pc, its considered abhorrent to the art of photography, when its always been there, the tools to apply it have just changed.

Do a bit of research and see how much you could actually do in a dark room. sure it was more manual and took more work, but the results were the same.

So to say if I open a photo in PS and adjust the contrast, saturation and crop is "shopping" and invalidating my photo is just rubbish.

Loire

fret_wimp2 wrote: »

How much of the tweaking you do in photoshop comes directly from techniques used in the dark room?

Brightness, Contrast, saturation, hue, saturation, blow up, crop and a bunch of other "effects" or "Post processing" was done in dark rooms manually for years.

But now as its done on a pc, its considered abhorrent to the art of photography, when its always been there, the tools to apply it have just changed.

Do a bit of research and see how much you could actually do in a dark room. sure it was more manual and took more work, but the results were the same.

So to say if I open a photo in PS and adjust the contrast, saturation and crop is "shopping" and invalidating my photo is just rubbish.

I think most people would agree with you, however, adding objects to photographs, such as moons or the swans above (super funny btw) is where I for one would draw the line.

Loire.

DaireQuinlan

fret_wimp2 wrote: »

So to say if I open a photo in PS and adjust the contrast, saturation and crop is "shopping" and invalidating my photo is just rubbish.

Well, lucky no-one is saying anything of the sort then, isn't it :rolleyes:

fret_wimp2

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

Well, lucky no-one is saying anything of the sort then, isn't it :rolleyes:

its been said a few times in this thread actually.

amdgilmore

fret_wimp2 wrote: »

its been said a few times in this thread actually.

It was mainly me who mentioned the saturation and contrast, and I did not say it invalidated the photo. I asked where the line was drawn, since all of these things can create scenes that are every bit as impossible as the one with the giant moon. I also said that it was too difficult to say where that line should be drawn.

It's something to consider, not a criticism or invalidation of every photo you're ever altered in photoshop.

secman

Had a press tog in the club last week, he shoots gigs mainly, low light stuff, only shoots jpeg and never uses flash, ramps up iso to 3200. Has won a couple of awards and interestingly, their shots are disqualified if any PS or alteration what so ever is used on their shots. Only cropping is allowed.

Secman

the_monkey

How often is the POTW posted ?
edit - sorry, sounded like i was complaining , I'm certainly not, Its a great motivator for photos !!!

Thanks dirtyghettokid !!

dirtyghettokid

the_monkey wrote: »

How often is the POTW posted ?

not weekly like it should ...

are you giving out?

i haven't had much time to do it lately, and there isn't really other mods on to do it very often. i was just about to do it now. i am three weeks behind.

bldwalsh

dirtyghettokid wrote: »

are you giving out?

i haven't had much time to do it lately, and there isn't really other mods on to do it very often. i was just about to do it now. i am three weeks behind.

Just like to say thanks for doing it dirtyghettokid. I for one love coming on here every week to see who got the POTW and to see i'm i've gotten a mention. THanks again.

the_monkey

Sorry, im not giving out ... i see my post looks that way, i should have re-phrased it .... :P