It's quite one thing to arrange people in a wedding party and an entirely different thing to arrange things in nature to suit your tastes. Doing this in nature I'd say is dishonest IMO.
I've come across scenes in nature and photographed them 'as found' numerous time - its really a matter of being alert and looking for them. That said I believe that this image was 'as found' as Mark stated and the colors look quite natural to me. -----Original Message----- >From: Darren Addy <[email protected]> >Sent: Oct 14, 2014 9:14 AM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: PESO - As Found > >Just a couple other thoughts about this remarkable composition... > >I think that Mark is being quite modest in calling this "As Found" >(and of course, attempting to derail any thoughts that he might have >arranged anything). Frankly, I wouldn't care if he had: Photography is >often in seeing the possibilities and presenting things (like people >at a wedding, for example) at their best. <derail>Anyone who has >photographed people professionally knows that if you do it passively - >photojournalist style - you aren't going to get the best results. >Small things like the amount and direction a head is tilted, or >providing something better to do with the clasped hands (fig leafs) >that people often automatically assume when a camera is pointed at >them, these things are "directorial" with the goal of presenting a >better (and, counter-intuitively, often a more natural-looking >photograph). Most still life images painted the masters was probably >not "as found" and I doubt that we care or give them bonus points for >never touching or adjusting anything within the composition. > >Secondly, a composition on the ground, like this one, still did not >automatically create a good image. The photographer still had choices >to make. Even if one chooses to say that the "directly overhead" point >of view was a "no-brainer" there were choices that the photographer >had to make on how much of the scene to include or crop out. He also >has the choice of making it a horizontal or vertical composition (or >square, even). And he has the freedom to orient the camera in any one >of 360 degrees while pointing down. It would be an interesting >experiment to take a group of photographers and (without them seeing >the others had done) assign them to photograph this same patch of >ground. I doubt that any two of them are going to come away with the >exact same image of the scene. > >Thirdly, after Tim Bray's comments I went back and looked at the image >again. I can see that the saturation might have been bumped a little >but I don't see this as a problem. It does not look unnatural to me, >although I realize that this is subjective and different photographers >may draw the line in different places. I normally look at the "white" >areas in an image to judge if the color cast is off in any direction >and the whites do not appear to have any sort of greenish cast to my >eyes. > >In short, I really, really like everything about this image and I'm >quite glad that Mark's eyes were open to the possibility when it >presented itself. > >On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: >> fortunately it wasnt -exactly- under your feet :-) >> >> That's one of those little scenes that no one is going to believe >> you didn't create by moving the leaf into just the right place.. >> "... not that there's anything wrong with that.." >> >> ann >> >> >> On 10/13/2014 19:20, Mark C wrote: >>> >>> http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/as-found >>> >>> You never know what is going to be right under your feet. >>> >>> Mark -- 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.
