Over saturated colors, smoothed out detail, typical digital image taken to the extreme. Someone on the list a long while ago called it "the cartoon effect", and that describes it perfectly. All digital images have it to some extent or another, but folks have gotten used to it and no longer notice if it is not as extreme as in your photo. Some actually think it looks better than a photographic image.
Graywolf (Tom Rittenhouse) Website: http://www.graywolfphoto.com Blog: http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Christine Aguila wrote: > Doug: Sometimes when I look at this, I get the strong urge to reach my hand > deep into photo & move those cars around like one might on a child's train > set. I can't really account for the effect. It's not a model. I shot this > from the balcony on the 27th floor of a building across the river. So, I > was really high up. The sidewalk would be where the darker green water is & > too the right out-of frame. I'm wondering if because I was so high up, it > creates this effect. Maybe someone else can explain. Thanks for looking. > Cheers, Christine > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 6:26 PM > Subject: Re: PESO Well, they ain't the Canadian Rookies . . . > > >> Christine Aguila wrote: >>> or a South Pacific sunset, and certainly not majestic lighthouses, but-- >>> (you'll have to supply your own bird) >>> >>> small >>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6826229 >>> >>> large >>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6827702 >> It looks like a photo of a model made for a movie or something. The >> deeper in to the field of view I get, the more model-like it seems. >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> DougF (KG4LMZ) >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
