Share your favorite photo(s) at the moment

[Sidoh]

I like the modified pictures quite a bit more than the originals.

[deadly7]

hah! I forgot iago has file uploading enabled.

All these were taken on Little Corn Island in Nicaragua. While there, I stayed at the Little Corn Beach & Bungalow. The parrot (pic 1) lives there. They let it out when it's daylight, otherwise he's caged.

Pic 2: The houses are elevated (it's an island, this makes sense) and surrounded by plants.

Pic 3: Walked down the beach a ways and took that picture overlooking the entire shoreline.

the pics were taken on what is now probably a 10 year old P&S so they're pretty crummy, but eh.

[iago]

I like the modified pictures quite a bit more than the originals.

Thanks!

hah! I forgot iago has file uploading enabled.

All these were taken on Little Corn Island in Nicaragua. While there, I stayed at the Little Corn Beach & Bungalow. The parrot (pic 1) lives there. They let it out when it's daylight, otherwise he's caged.

Pic 2: The houses are elevated (it's an island, this makes sense) and surrounded by plants.

Pic 3: Walked down the beach a ways and took that picture overlooking the entire shoreline.

the pics were taken on what is now probably a 10 year old P&S so they're pretty crummy, but eh.

They'd look better with higher saturation, especially the last one. ;)

[Sidoh]

love it!

[Blaze]

Agreeing with Sidoh, the over-saturation gives it a pretty cinematic feel.

[deadly7]

hey'd look better with higher saturation, especially the last one. ;)

My problem with that is that I feel like it looks a little too fake. The greens were definitely green, but not like THAT. Admittedly it is better than the original, but that usually happens after post-processing on a pic taken by an old and crappy camera.

[Sidoh]

"Fake" is, at least for me, not a very good reason to dislike a photo. :)

[while1]

I have mixed feelings, I agree it looks better... but it's the same reason I have mixed feelings about women with boob jobs.

[deadly7]

"Fake" is, at least for me, not a very good reason to dislike a photo. :)

It's the juxtaposition of a realistic canvas with a high contrast color palette. To take it to the extreme to illustrate my point, if iago had also manipulated it so that G--->Pink and B--->Red, would you still find it a good photo? I think there's a level of post processing that's "just right" and if you are friends with me on FB, my profile pic was enhanced just a little, but it would be very hard to tell.

[iago]

A camera is never going to capture what your eyes see, because it can't adjust as finely. Take this picture for example:


That image is actually two combined - the background and the foreground are separate. It's not an HDR, exactly, since I did it manually using gradients and the fuzzy paintbrush tool.

The human eye can adjust and see a blue sky and brown bridge and grafittied building just fine at the same time. But a camera can't, either the sky is white or the building is black. A camera just can't replicate real life that well.

Same goes for colour saturation - to a point. I generally like to turn up sliders too far - I'm a fan of bright colours and contrast - but a standard camera (or even a good camera) can't get the colours exactly as they are supposed to be. Sometimes it doesn't properly determine which colour white is, sometimes it doesn't get the brightness right, stuff like that.

There are a lot of people who argue against post-processing in any way, but in my opinion it is, at least in part, a useful tool to make a picture real.

Keeping in mind that I like mine surreal, to a point. Although the example in this post isn't so bad. :)

[iago]

[iago]

I'll singlehandedly keep this thread alive if I have to! :)


img_7d_1613 by uewinnipeg, on Flickr

[Blaze]

What does the original version of that photo look like

[while1]

The colors look too vibrant- like it was just freshly spray painted.

[iago]

What does the original version of that photo look like

I don't have the original JPG anymore, so I couldn't say. I do have the original CR2, but it makes no adjustments by default.
Found the JPG on my laptop!

Original:


Modified: