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Phoenix Park
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Decided to take Jack the long way home today through Phoenix Park rather than use the M50.
Awww Mick, it’s just too small. It looks cracking, but I’d much rather see it much bigger
Looks to me like you were in the right place at the right time, with the right equipment! Great shot with real impact. Composition wise I can’t fault it. Saturation obviously very high but as long as there is no colour noise/distortion when printed, I would leave it.
Great!
This is absolutely stunning Mick, Looks like Autumn is a hell of alot more colourful in Dublin than it is down here :)
The colours, the composition, the light – incredible.Ali, you should know better by now – been tinkering in potatoshop.
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http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=270460122&size=oOriginal
Mick,
the composition is just perfect.
The PS work in the first photo is too much for me.
I love the original. It has ‘impressionist’ feeling. Also has fogy atmosphere, what you lost on the first one. Only need to add a little contrast and decrease brightness.Firstly, I want to note that I love the pic and am in awe of your ps skills as demonstrated here and on other posts.
However, I have to admit that knowing that it has been so altered takes away the magic for me, ignorance is bliss, lol. One of the things I like about photography is the idea of capturing a moment in time, a moment that would slip away and be gone forever but for the click of a shutter, but when this amount of processing takes place that isn’t what is occurring, at least not in the same way.
I’m left with somewhat of a dilemma; I want to see more of your pics because I love them. However, I’m torn between wanting to know they are edited (because mine look so crap in comparison) and not wanting to know because, for me, it impinges on the romanticism of the captured moment.
Keep on clicking,
D.
Great shot Mick. Composition is lurvly and the park looks glorious in your edit which is a complete transformation from the original and I LOVE it :)
L
What a wonderful edit Mick. Roberto has mentioned that he prefers the original unedited version, but for me your postprocessing has really brought this image to life. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing amiss with the original, lovely composition, light and tones, but your potatoshop job is fantastic. As far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing amiss with seeing the world as you wish to see it. Keep it up.
Rob.
Great job, if a little over saturated for my personal liking.
I’m not going to go down the “edit / non edited” debate – this could easily have been done on film well before the days of photoshop, and I personally have no problem in using PS or a darkroom to enhance a shot. Compact cameras do this for you – with PS or a dark room you just make the choices instead of the camera. The finished article is what matters to me.
I’d love to see a large version somewhere inbetween the two above.
Tim
earthairfire wrote:
I’d love to see a large version somewhere inbetween the two above.
Tim
Tim,
Mick has included a link to the larger version in his second post containing the original shot. Maybe you could have a go at creating your own version 8)
Rob wrote:
earthairfire wrote:
I’d love to see a large version somewhere inbetween the two above.
Tim
Tim,
Mick has included a link to the larger version in his second post containing the original shot. Maybe you could have a go at creating your own version 8)
So he did!! :oops:
Note to self: Read posts properly before replying!! :lol:
I’m stuck in the UK with work at the mo, so don’t have my computer with me (excuses excuses…) – but will endeavour at a later date to remember to come back and take up the challenge!
Tim
Roberto: Glad you like the original.
imagine/earthairfire: go ahead down the route of pro/con editing images, nothing better than a bit of healthy discussion.
Obviously I’m all for post-processing, and most of my images are processed to a greater or lesser extent.
Capturing a ‘moment’ is what photography is all about, but everyone sees things differently and every moment means something different to them.If you want to display a factual representation of what you do then, for a start, for me, you must shoot in colour with minimal post-processing. Shooting in B&W brings its own interpretive baggage on how ‘you’ see the world, not how it actually is; form and tone come to the fore at the expense of colour and that has it’s own aesthetic values associated with it.
I rarely try to show the world as it actually is because I think that’s the hardest thing to do in a way that has real impact – that is, I’m not that good to be able to. I am good at getting across a mood/feeling of what I experience when I press the shutter button, reasonably good at composition and I’m really interested in colour psychology. So that’s what I concentrate on purely because it’s what interests me. Probably explains why people either like or dislike my bits, they’re so stylised to my own tastes I never expect anyone to like them – though I’m always pleased when they are. Being a hobby they’re not really important in the great scheme of things, and because of that I have no client constraints on how something should look their only real value is in what they mean to me. I have no qualms about retouching the hell out of photographs because I’m not interested in the photograph as an end result, for me it’s the start of a process that ends with an image. Is it still a photograph, or is it digital art at that stage? Really, who cares.
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