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Filtered photos as "art" Anonymous
Ok so I personally enjoy throwing my photos through photoshop to see what I can make out of them. I consider myself a decent photographer (still very much learning) so most of the stuff I shoop I liked in the first place. But why do people on /p/ get so worked up about it? I havn't done any HDR stuff yet but even if I were to do something I liked I would be wary of posting it here 'cause of such a negative reaction.
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>> Anonymous
It's just usually the way that they filter that makes it look like a trashy picture with shoddy special effects. If done correctly it can have some good results like the OP pic, which reminds me of a water color painting.
>> Anonymous
>>70069
cuz photographers are terrible photoshoppers. filters shouldnt be touched.

rather learn to get a particular desired effect than applying lots of random filters which look cheesey.

you wouldnt see a cheesy wipescreen transition in a feature film now would you? that's the same as adding filter effects to a photo.
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>>70083
>you wouldnt see a cheesy wipescreen transition in a feature film now would you?
Maybe a long time ago.

You know, in a galaxy far, far away.
>> Anonymous
if you ever manage to track down a photography book from the early days of digital (93, 94), take a look through it. note how dated everything looks. extrapolate that for your own photography by 15-20 years. In a lot of cases, current digital manipulation already looks dated-- desaturated bg/saturated subject is the Kai's Power Goo of 2007.

Granted, there is some very good digital alteration out there; Andreas Gursky and Jeff Wall come to mind. Their work is mostly compositing, correcting perspective, saturating colors, etc. In other words, it's merely complementing the already very strong work.
>> Anonymous
>>70069
>I consider myself a decent photographer (still very much learning) so most of the stuff I shoop I liked in the first place.

And most people on MySpace think they're sexy... need I say more?
>> Anonymous
Very true. I think wipescreens just look cheesy because you don't see them as often these days. It's all fades.
>> Anonymous
Photography and photoshop or digital manipulations are different subjects, they just generally don't belong on this board, you can alter things like you normally would with any photo (saturation, hue intensity, contrast, perspective, borders, etc) but anything beyond that changes photography into a different medium.
>> Anonymous
>>Granted, there is some very good digital alteration out there; Andreas Gursky and Jeff Wall come to mind. Their work is mostly compositing, correcting perspective, saturating colors, etc. In other words, it's merely complementing the already very strong work.

As it should be