4 Assignments
- Oxymoron (Photograph two opposite concepts within one frame)
- Green
- B&W Portrait
- the Night
We'd talked about the role of post-process in these and I think the concensus was that minimal photoshop can be used if desired (levels, saturation, cropping, straightening), but you must declare along with the image what exactly was done. I think the idea though is that the less photoshop the better and hopefully we'll all get good enough that we barely ever need it. We can discuss more in the comments for this post if wished. Maybe the original untouched photo should be available for others to view also?
Assignments are due end of day, March 31st.
6 comments:
I likes it! Minimal PSD is a great idea - it pushes you to try harder at capture rather than leaving it for post-production. And the Oscar goes to...
its on boyz! Thanks dhab for kicking this off...now I shall take my camera with me everywhere...
I Guess my only comment is that I thought we said to use minimal touch up for B&W only and that the color photos should not get any touch ups...I'm equally split for either - I like the idea of not touching up our photos at all so as to make us conscious of lighting, composition, etc when taking the picture...but, then again, this is digital photography, whose main component is digital manipulation...
Any comments...?
my opinion is this... in traditional photography, in the dark room, so many things are done to get a photo to come out how you want it. Mainly in terms of contrast, brightness, etc. Depending on how long you expose the photopaper to your nagative, and at what strength etc., will garner different results in print. So i think doing things like that in photoshop is the same. There is no "default" exposure in the dark room, but not touching it in photoshop is forcing us to use a default exposure. Granted even in the dark room you can do things like brighten certain areas or darken, thats how the terms "dodge" and "burn" got into Photoshop, but to me that starts getting too much into photo editing. So in my opinion adjusting the levels is just as true photography as doing the same in the darkroom. Even famous photographers like Ansel Adams used darkroom techniques, but no matter what he could do in the darkroom, the negative still had to be a good shot.
I think the key here is not relying on photoshop. A good photo will be a good photo no matter what. If punching it up a little in photoshop will help then why not. For my photos, i know that i personally want to do the least i possibly can, and even nothing if possible.
I agree with Dhab as he wrote in the comment and in the original post saying:
"minimal photoshop can be used if desired (levels, saturation, cropping, straightening), but you must declare along with the image what exactly was done."
but it should be limited to those four items really and also declared in the image submission.
Ultimately what I want to get out of this is to really use & develop my photography skills and not photoshop skills
I've only had a DSLR and been playing with photography for a couple of months now. So far I've been able to resist the urge for installing photoshop. I personally feel that everything is fair game when it comes to photo editing. However being a newbie, I want to try and get the best out of my camera and learn as much as I can, before spending too much time with photoshop, trying to create something out of a photo which is poor to begin with. I've primarily been using Picasa 2, which lets you make some basic color and exposure corrections
There is one photoshop functionality (and I think there is other software for it) that I'm really interested in though, and that's HDR. It's easy to do, but very hard to do well. It'd be cool to have a HDR assignment at some point.
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