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Beautiful - but I'd like to also see all the pictures before photoshop.
by danmaz74 13y ago
Beautiful - but I'd like to also see all the pictures before photoshop.
- jwarren 13y agoWhy?
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- jwarren 13y agoI know I've been downvoted for such a short reply, but it was a genuine question - I wanted to know what danmaz was curious about.
- yankcrime 13y agoWhy? It's part of the creative process - a good photographer will consider all tools available to them, including post-processing, in order to achieve the shot they envisage.
- danmaz74 13y agoBecause, when you look at something that looks incredible, it's interesting to know if it is also true.
- adulau 13y agoIt's two different forms of art. You have photography and post-processing. Both are arts and doing both together is even more difficult.
- ijk 13y agoYes...though darkroom manipulation has been around since the very earliest photographs, so it's not a new thing.
- trafficlight 13y agoFor example, Ansel Adams printing notes: http://notesonphotographs.org/index.php?title=Sexton,_John._Moonrise,_Hernandez._Ansel_Adams_Printing_Notes_%E2%80%94%E2%80%9CTranslation%E2%80%9D http://notesonphotographs.org/index.php?title=Sexton,_John._...
- Sharlin 13y agoPost-processing in digital photography usually denotes the process equivalent to developing the film in film photography (which can be a complex process where multiple choices can be made that affect the result). Sharpening, noise reduction, brightness, contrast and so on. These are an integral part of the workflow - nobody would simply publish raw images straight from the camera (turning the raw sensor data into a JPEG involves multiple choices that someone has to make - it's either the photographer or the engineers that wrote the default conversion algorithms built in the camera.)
- adulau 13y agoThere are various movements in photography. You still need to use some techniques while doing some photographies but usually for straight photography, it ends when you press the shutter. But I suppose that Henri Cartier-Bresson expressed it in a better way: "Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. We play with subjects that disappear; and when they’re gone, it’s impossible to bring them back to life. We can’t alter our subject afterward.... Writers can reflect before they put words on paper.... As photographers, we don’t have the luxury of this reflective time....We can’t redo our shoot once we’re back at the hotel. Our job consists of observing reality with help of our camera (which serves as a kind of sketchbook), of fixing reality in a moment, but not manipulating it, neither during the shoot nor in the darkroom later on. These types of manipulation are always noticed by anyone with a good eye." Henri Cartier-Bresson - "American Photo", September/October 1997, page: 76
- venus 13y agoManipulation was only allowed in the "experimental" category - mostly the ones with timelapses. If you have some evidence that entries in the other categories have been 'shopped, I'm sure the organisers would be very interested to hear from you. That one with the satellite dish is masterful.
- danmaz74 13y agoThanks, that's very interesting (and impressive!)
- zokier 13y agoThere is no such thing as unprocessed digital photograph.
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- rorrr2 13y agoRAW is pretty much unprocessed.
- Sharlin 13y agoBut you cannot see a RAW - so it's debatable whether you can call it a photograph. Many choices must be made either implicitly or explicitly when rendering a RAW into an actual image representable on screen or paper.
- rorrr2 13y agoThat's like saying "you can't see light, that's just your brain's interpretation of your retina's interpretation of the lens's interpretation of a narrow band of the spectrum".