A number of factors influence this. In any scene that you gaze at, objects that are brighter, more contrasty, or warmer coloured, all attract your attention over parts of the image that are darker, are in cooler colours, or have less contrast. Taken to the limit you get the classic HDR look.
Then sites like 500px reward images that get the quick Likes by upping their chances of being shown -- it's very circular. I challenge you to spend more than an hour or two viewing images on 500px. Because of the voting system's bias you'll soon see that images look much alike there. It's like restaurant's tendency to over-salt and over-sweeten. It's fun for the first little while, but pretty soon you'll say Yuck! and quit going there. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Whatever connoisseurs might say, the large portion of people do enjoy > bright, saturated colors. > > Every so often, PDMLers criticize examples of somebody's oversaturated > photos. But there must a be a reason why those things "sell". > I just looked over the first few pages of the most popular photos on > 500px.com: > http://500px.com/popular > Almost all of them (if not all) have saturated colors (or high-contrast > B&W) > > I am sure psychologists wrote papers and books on this topic, I didn't > even try to google it, but I suspect the reason is simple: bright colors > are easier for "consumption", the same way as sweet foods/drinks > attract attention of adults and especially kids. In a similar way, > many people start drinking wines by liking the sweet ones. > > Igor > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
