G'day Nick Back in August last year I asked a simple question "When is a little Photoshoppery too much Photoshoppery?". This produced a flood of responses which pretty much covered the whole gamut of opinions on the 'honesty/dishonesty' question.
You might find it interesting to read through that thread in the archives. http://pdml.net/pipermail/pdml_pdml.net/2008-August/thread.html Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:51 -0500, "Nick Wright" <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, it is. But somewhere along the line I came to view one as > "honest" and the other as "dishonest." > > Not that it's that simple though. Because I think that a "straight" > photo can be dishonest as well. > > Which is something that I've also been thinking about in regards to my > original photo. I like my shot quite a bit, but I cycled past that > church again the other day and I realized that it is not an honest > photo. > > The reason I believe that is because in the photo the tower appears to > be much taller than the rest of the building, when in reality the roof > line to the right of the tower in the photo is higher. > > I didn't think about it when I shot it, and then I didn't think about > it when I got the negs back. > > So what do you all think about that? > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Bruce Dayton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Isn't just changing the lens or the angle that you take the shot, > > changing the perspective? It would seem that if altering the photo > > after the shot bothers you, then altering the photo before the shot > > should to. Just different methods of accomplishing the same basic > > thing. > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > Bruce > > > > > > Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 5:06:20 AM, you wrote: > > > > NW> Thanks to all the folks who took time to comment on this last PESO of > > NW> mine. I do appreciate the critiques. > > > > NW> One item I'd like to touch on is the concept of software perspective > > NW> control. I'd been thinking about this recently before I'd posted my > > NW> PESO and then Brian brought it up in his critique of my image. > > > > NW> I'm just amazed at how fast technology changes. The last time I was an > > NW> active member of this list (granted that was 8 years ago) the only way > > NW> to achieve perspective control was with a view camera or shift lens. > > NW> Now you can get something of the same effect using photoshop. > > > > NW> I don't currently have any software with the ability to "correct" > > NW> perspective, but an older laptop of mine had Elements 2 which did. I > > NW> played around with it a bit but never could really get my heart into > > NW> it. > > > > NW> I think it mainly has to do with all those years at the newspaper. Any > > NW> alteration of a photograph like that just makes me cringe. > > > > NW> I'm curious to hear more of you all's opinions on the process? > > > > NW> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >>> Nice composition but the tower gets a bit lost in the background sky. > >>> > >>> Also, I'd try a bit of perspective correction to make the verticals > >>> vertical and the horizontals, er...horizontal. It may not be an > >>> improvement but worth investigating. > >>> > >>> > >>> Cheers > >>> > >>> Brian > >>> > >>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >>> Brian Walters > >>> Western Sydney Australia > >>> http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:52 -0500, "Nick Wright" > >>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> Here's another PESO: > >>>> http://pedalingprose.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/church-tower-2/ > >>>> > >>>> Comment welcome and appreciated. > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> ~Nick David Wright > >>>> http://pedalingprose.wordpress.com/ > >>>> > >>> -- > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> 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. > >>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > > > -- > ~Nick David Wright > http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ > > -- > 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. -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web -- 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.
