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Plassey Shipwreck (Inis Oirr)
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Taken way back in April and finally processed over the weekend. C&C very welcome.
omg nice processing and amazing sky… i would love to see some ocean in the picture showing where the wreck is located… but nice overall
Super work there Latchiko. Not much point in trying to go into any detail… the photograph speaks for itself.
Great work Kevin. You’ve managed to retain loads of detail there.
I think the fact that the sea is not in the photograph just adds an extra level of intrigue to the image.
One minor distraction though is the reflection in the rock pool in the foreground. Would it be worthwhile darkening it a little I wonder?
Nice processing,
I have been there and I found it bloody hard to get a right shot at it.
The day was overcast and not great light, but this shot was taken with good light i think.Its hard to get the sea in it. its a good bit awayunless you tried a panoramic.
this is nice though, i like it.
Thanks for the feedback! :D
aoluain wrote:
I have been there and I found it bloody hard to get a right shot at it.
The day was overcast and not great light, but this shot was taken with good light i think.The light wasn’t good for me either! I was on a day trip to the island so I was only there for a few hours and it was an overcast day with terrible light. I took a few different shots anyway hoping I’d be able to do something with them. A few weeks ago there was a good sunset so I photographed it with the intention of combining it with the foreground of this image. A few hours with photoshop and this is the result. It took a lot of work to get it to look natural – it would have been easier to go back and take it with better light!
Harry Lime wrote:
One minor distraction though is the reflection in the rock pool in the foreground. Would it be worthwhile darkening it a little I wonder?
Good point! That reflection was caused by the original overcast sky and is therefore brighter than you would expect from a sunset. I’ll fix that tonight.
WOW
I might drag my original snaps out a do a bit or tricking around.
Now whan yoiu say it the sunset is kindof in the wrong place the view is looking kind of
south !! but yea who would know and i have been there a few times and i didnt notice it at first.but it looks great!
I didn’t put 2 and 2 together re:the sky. Kind of disappointed with myself :lol: :lol: :lol:
This is a tremendous shot, although “shot” is perhaps the wrong word.
I have some difficulty with the idea of replacing skies without a declaration.In your original post you state “taken way back in april”.
We therefore make the assumption that it is a single exposure or blended shots of the same scene.This is a good example of where digital art can fool us and give us an uneasy feeling deep inside about what landscape photography has become. Personally, I’d rather have the patience to wait for the light. But fair play to you this is a fantastic shot, abeit based on fantasy.
Sorry to steal your thunder a bit. This is just not my cup of tea I’m afraid.
Andy
Hoodwinked by digital art! The image is very attractive, does it print OK? Or is the
tampering evident on a full-size print?Sorry if I sound a bit cynical, but I doubt I’m alone in thinking that photo-realistic
computer art should have a section of its own so that actual photos can be discussed
in the appropriate place. I wouldn’t have spotted the manipulation till you pointed
it out – perhaps that compounds my feeling of being duped. Normally there’s an
assumption that HDR is the edge of acceptability when it comes to merging images
in the landscape forum. Or am I the only person holding this naive belief?EDIT: Andy’s post was added while I was writing my post.
That’s a great view of the wreck, with the davits out-
you can just imagine the boats being launched-The colour is great, and the colouring,
although it seems to me to have improved around the pool area since this morning, maybe-There is something odd going on in the foreground,
it seems to have lost some detail, to be just on the edge of focus-The sky is the thing the landscapers like-
and to get this sky with this foreground would have taken many exposures,
and a little bit of work-Now that you look at the picture knowing it to be a collage rather than HDR, what’s the difference?
All this art is digital- and duping seems to be the nature of the game in some branches of it-I don’t care either way, really-
I’m looking at this on a computer, after all-Good picture though-
j
I don’t usually chirp in when it comes to the old ways versus new ways arguments I usually just sit back and read all the opinions but I’ve just noticed I do have an opinion either way. I beleive since the dawn of photography photographers have been tring to manipulate a scene to portray something that isn’t quite there. Flash photography for instance is generating light that just doesn’t exist, filters to change the over all colour of the scene. Removing all the colour to black and white to portray a mood. It’s endless and it will always be the same.
There is a merge between traditional photography and digital art and this isn’t always a good thing but to me what defines a photographer apart from a digital artist is the photographer will spend time making it look real and like it could have happened. Just as a photographer who uses flash will spend time making it look as natural as possible, so has latchiko spent time making his merge look natural. To me this scene could easily have happened. I have one myself (albeit not near as good) that looks very similar taken in one shot.
To sandwich two slides to make a print is ok but layering in photoshop isn’t? To me it’s the same same but different.
Phil
fig wrote:
I don’t usually chirp in when it comes to the old ways versus new ways arguments I usually just sit back and read all the opinions but I’ve just noticed I do have an opinion either way. I beleive since the dawn of photography photographers have been tring to manipulate a scene to portray something that isn’t quite there. Flash photography for instance is generating light that just doesn’t exist, filters to change the over all colour of the scene. Removing all the colour to black and white to portray a mood. It’s endless and it will always be the same.
There is a merge between traditional photography and digital art and this isn’t always a good thing but to me what defines a photographer apart from a digital artist is the photographer will spend time making it look real and like it could have happened. Just as a photographer who uses flash will spend time making it look as natural as possible, so has latchiko spent time making his merge look natural. To me this scene could easily have happened. I have one myself (albeit not near as good) that looks very similar taken in one shot.
To sandwich two slides to make a print is ok but layering in photoshop isn’t? To me it’s the same same but different.
Phil
HERE HERE.
There are/were traditional darkrooms and there are desktop darkrooms.
Photography has and always will be pushed to its limits and with digital becoming more and more popular and technology
becoming more advanced of course people are going to experiment more.Latchiko’s pic is not digital art (fantasy) its a photograph.
show me 1 picture which hasnt been tweaked in some way either greatly or slightly?Darkroom tricks!
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