Here is an example of some of what we are seeing in the wedding world. Do you like it? How long would it take per photo to make this kind of change?
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8420492&size=lg -- Bruce Monday, March 23, 2009, 2:06:54 PM, you wrote: ME> Interesting read. As others have pointed out, manipulation is nothing new. ME> Here are some pre-digital examples: ME> When Fujichrome and later Velvia came out, some photographers derisively ME> referred to it as "Disneychrome" due to its saturated colors. ME> In a pre-digital article in Outdoor Photographer back in the 1990's, Galen ME> Rowell described using stacked ND gradient filters to achieve more than 10 ME> stops of gradient in an image. If that's not HDR imaging, I don't know what ME> is! ME> Lith printing and toning (selenium, gold, etc.) are chemical forms of image ME> manipulation. ME> Black and white is manipulation in and of itself, since it involves ME> converting color light into a monochrome image. ME> Ansel Adams used darkroom manipulation to wipe out a giant white "L" put on ME> an Alabama Hills slope by the students at Lone Pine high school in the ME> following image: ME> ME> http://www.anseladams.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1858 ME> The whole Pictorialism movement (dating from the 1880's) was all about ME> manipulating images to obtain "painterly" effects. ME> etc. ME> I personally find a lot of the manipulation that I see today really ME> annoying, particularly garish HDR and odd sharpening effects that seem to be ME> in vogue. Even worse is the body sculpting and image distortion that ME> fashion magazines use to turn models into cartoons with unattainable body ME> shapes. As a father of two daughters, that really bothers me.... ME> --Mark ME> -- ME> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List ME> [email protected] ME> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net ME> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
