Dandu Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Here is a shot I took in downtown Toronto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave to zep Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 oooh love this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrum Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 This is from an article posted on the Buzzfeed website called 40 of the Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken A French civilian cries in despair as Nazis occupy Paris during World War II. Via: iconicphotos.wordpress.com Yeah, that's a classic. My hatred for the Nazi's will never diminish. Mt. Rainier last week with a lenticular cloud on top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrum Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 A little display in a Tacoma antique store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrum Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Omar Cigarettes ad in Tacoma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul carruthers Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepscoda Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 The setting sun on Zion Cemetery - Frisco, Texas, Sunday June 3rd 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bingo Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Here is a shot I took in downtown Toronto. I love the colouring in this shot. Thank you Zepette. greenman, as usual, good stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bingo Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 If I were a bird, I would want to fly here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandu Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 I love the colouring in this shot. Thanks Bingo. I did some editing to darken the sky and mute the colours (except for the red traffic lights). Am just learning to use Photoshop, but I must admit, it feels a bit like cheating... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bingo Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 STOP that thought right now!!! Photographs have been manipulated since day one....you think Ansel Adams didn't manipulate in the dark room? ALL photographers manipulate their photos. PLUS, that's the second artistic side of a photograph, you can change that one photograph a million ways, dark sky, heavy colour, light sky, just one colour, blown out features, etc. etc. etc. Be proud of how you want your photograph to become. BUT, i know how you feel...I felt the same way in the beginning until you realize that's the beauty of art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bingo Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 ...and on the flip side, there will be many photographs you like just the way they're shot. The only person you have to please is yourself....just like music, do what you do and people will like your work for YOUR input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenman Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Thanks Bingo. I did some editing to darken the sky and mute the colours (except for the red traffic lights). Am just learning to use Photoshop, but I must admit, it feels a bit like cheating... As Bingo said post shot manipulation has taken place since the 19th century, espeically landscape shots where you often dealing with massive differences in light thoughout the frame, The process today is perhaps easier than it was in the darkroom and offers more options but the key as with the pics themselves is good taste. The internet is full of terrible photoshoped pics featuring gimmicks like spot colour but your pic useses a similar process in a far more subtle and taseful way. B&W espeically has always been massive influenced by post processing, very rarely do I find an in camera shot is as effective as one created afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bingo Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Wow...an actual Stairway to Heaven. Where is that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 (edited) Wow...an actual Stairway to Heaven. Where is that? It's the El Peñón de Guatapé located in the town of Guatapé in Antioquia, Colombia. The photo I posted comes from this blog. Edited June 8, 2012 by Jahfin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandu Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 As Bingo said post shot manipulation has taken place since the 19th century Thanks Bingo and Greenman! Didn't realize this is just the way its done. I just assumed that people waited for the right lighting, adjusted their settings, maybe used a filter and that was it. I feel less bad about photoshop now! I have to say, it is alot of fun to have so much control over your photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 I'm not a professional photographer by any stretch of the imagination but as much as I love Photoshop, I sort of miss the actual dark room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Somewhere in Alaska Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bingo Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Is someone from the NY Daily News a Led Head? Are they reading this forum? lol......Perfectly timed article on what we were just discussing. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/re-writing-history-altering-photos-photoshop-article-1.1092552 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenman Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 (edited) Thanks Bingo and Greenman! Didn't realize this is just the way its done. I just assumed that people waited for the right lighting, adjusted their settings, maybe used a filter and that was it. I feel less bad about photoshop now! I have to say, it is alot of fun to have so much control over your photos. Photographers have always done all of those things, its always better to get as close to the final shot as you can in camera but that doesnt mean they didnt also use the darkroom to improve them afterwards, use every tool you can get to the best final result IMHO. The real skill with photoshop is I'd say learning to edit in a naturalistic fashion so people cannot tell you've even do so. Anyone can just crank the saturation and contrast up across the entire pic massively and the results will generally look very garish and fake. Edited June 9, 2012 by greenman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Is someone from the NY Daily News a Led Head? Are they reading this forum? lol......Perfectly timed article on what we were just discussing. http://www.nydailyne...ticle-1.1092552 Thanks for posting as that's a very cool article but when I refer to using Photoshop on photographs I meant more in a sense of using it as a digital darkroom rather than radically altering the images themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe (Liverpool) Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 In that case what's the point in taking a picture? A picture is supposed to be natural, not tarted up afterwards to make up for the photographers incompetence. If you want a perfect picture ....buy a postcard, they even make the sea at Blackpool look Blue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 (edited) I'm referring to basically doing the same thing with Photoshop that you would be able to do in an actual darkroom. In the case of developing film in a darkroom, it's not something you're doing to manipulate a photograph after the fact, it's something you're doing as the film actually develops. Using Photoshop just gives you more control. Neither method is meant to make up for incompetency on the part of the photographer or to make the photo perfect. Recently in this thread I posted some photos from guy who uses a toy film camera to take photos. He uses Photoshop but he doesn't use it to do anything that he couldn't also do in a wet darkroom. The photographer is Michael Bryant, the type of camera he uses is a Holga. In the event that you're interested, here's a link to his website where he explains his method. Here's a couple of his photos that I didn't post previously: Edited June 10, 2012 by Jahfin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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