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Wow it's astounding how much work can go into processing an image. I think he brings up an interesting point when he says he was interested in telling a story r
by cooper12 10y ago
Wow it's astounding how much work can go into processing an image. I think he brings up an interesting point when he says he was interested in telling a story rather than depicting reality. Makes one think twice about all those beautiful nature and space shots they see.
- sliverstorm 10y agoLearning photography teaches me that we don't see reality, anyway. Or at the very least, cameras don't see what we see. An easy example is your area of attention. Look at a distant deer in a meadow, you see a deer. Take a photo, and you get a meadow with a speck that might be a deer. I want to see what the photographer saw, or saw in their mind's eye, not the grid-array of photons that struck their retina. Edit: also, astrophotography starts to veer into camera-as-instrument, where you are capturing data invisible to the human eye. You process that data like any other science experiment, and prepare it for visual inspection...
- thedz 10y ago"Reality", when it comes to photography, is ill defined tho. Something as fundamental as adjusting exposure will create very different images. I except news photography, since they tend to expose and shoot for what the eye sees, with minimal amounts of staging or post processing.