Ranchu
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“The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
Photography and The Death of Reality
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Steve Bellayr
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In "Camera Lucida" by Roland Barthes there is a long essay on the realism of photography.
YYV_146
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The Lula article is a rather poor example of HDR applied in photography.
I took this photo in Hong Kong. Not the most interesting image, but note that the brightness of the ocean and detail of the hills in the background is obviously impossible for a picture taken with a properly exposed sunset sky. I made three images of the same frame, selected the properly exposed segment of each image (sky, hills, ships and water) and combined them in one frame with a bit of further tonal tweaking. I then added gradation filters to each of the overlapping areas, and this is the result.
HDR does not always have to be intrusive and "tacky"...
I took this photo in Hong Kong. Not the most interesting image, but note that the brightness of the ocean and detail of the hills in the background is obviously impossible for a picture taken with a properly exposed sunset sky. I made three images of the same frame, selected the properly exposed segment of each image (sky, hills, ships and water) and combined them in one frame with a bit of further tonal tweaking. I then added gradation filters to each of the overlapping areas, and this is the result.
HDR does not always have to be intrusive and "tacky"...
semi-ambivalent
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I don't know if AA took any good photographs with people in them other than "Moonrise..."
Ranchu
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Too bright all over.
pwnewport
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I guess I'd like to say that reality is bigger than any image, and every image adds to it. Reality is (and the same as) anything we can take a picture of.
That said, here's big mythology here. Adams is a great example. Yes, him and his kit were there and took the Yosemite pictures, and folks have made a religion out of the Zone System and on an on, but his project fits in with a long tradition (Bierstadt) that had to do with portraying the American wilderness as a New Eden. In that context, Adams was a johnny come lately.
As a photographer, he was not so much interested in the decisive moment, a la Frank or Weegee (one of my faves) as he was in the transcendent moment: the earth that time forgot. But did you notice that there are no people in Adam's pictures?
That's a problem. Adams demands to be appreciated aesthetically at the expense of real people. There's the tension between the so-called "art photographer" and the photojournalist.
For me, as a landscape photographer, the landscape begins where I am. Adams might insist that it begins where you aren't. Photoshop seems to be a way to cross that divide.
That said, here's big mythology here. Adams is a great example. Yes, him and his kit were there and took the Yosemite pictures, and folks have made a religion out of the Zone System and on an on, but his project fits in with a long tradition (Bierstadt) that had to do with portraying the American wilderness as a New Eden. In that context, Adams was a johnny come lately.
As a photographer, he was not so much interested in the decisive moment, a la Frank or Weegee (one of my faves) as he was in the transcendent moment: the earth that time forgot. But did you notice that there are no people in Adam's pictures?
That's a problem. Adams demands to be appreciated aesthetically at the expense of real people. There's the tension between the so-called "art photographer" and the photojournalist.
For me, as a landscape photographer, the landscape begins where I am. Adams might insist that it begins where you aren't. Photoshop seems to be a way to cross that divide.
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