I'm not much bothered by photo-composites and image manipulation, as
long as the photographer/graphic artist does *NOT* attempt to pass the
resulting image off as non-composite/non-manipulated images.
Plus, if you're going to attempt this kind of composite, you should pay
attention to what you're doing and create the highest quality image you
are capable of.
It could have been a stunning image if the author had done that.
On 9/30/2015 2:56 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote:
Mark Roberts wrote:
Total composite: One shot of a normal full moon taken with a super
telephoto and then tinted red in Photoshop. Another shot of the antler
arch taken with a shorter lens. Both pasted onto a black background
with no stars.
In the last six months I've attended two talks on Lightroom and Elements in
an effort to get to grips with the finer details of these image enhancement
programmes. Both speakers had a lot of letters after their names associated
with fellowships of photographic organisations.
One adopted the view that these are here to help you realise what you
actually saw, and bring out the detail that you saw in the scene yourself,
but the image needs a little help in post production to give you that same
view. I'm fine with that, and I try to do as much as I can 'in camera' (even
with abstracts) and is the view I have in general.
The other, some weeks later, really annoyed me. Whilst he showed some
terrific photo manipulation skills, such as moving skies from one image to
another and then moving things around the image so it viewed better, I was
surprised that such images were then used - and won! - competitions. I find
this really difficult to come to terms with; if you are manipulating the
image so much that it bears little resemblance to what you saw, why bother
with the camera at all? I could spent the rest of my days simply cutting and
pasting different bits from pictures I've already taken.
I am not a competition person, and the enhanced removal or addition of
elements within an image to enhance it to be what it wasn't, does not
appeal.
The image you point out Mark is becoming mainstream, and in some quarters
encouraged. I can now understand why many serious competitions also want the
unmodified RAW files with the entry to stop this nonsense.
Malcolm
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