Digital Foliage

I'm posting this as a first forray into the world of digital

extreme. To what level of digital manipulation can one take a photo

and have it still be considered photography? I've always felt if a

technique can be done in camera and in a wet darkroom, then it is

fair game, but is this the case? What make a good photo, and what

can make a good photo better in all fairness? Please rate and

comment I'm interested in where such a photo belongs in this world?

 

-STEVEl

I think rating is very personal. I would hang your picture on my wall because I like vibrating colors in nature. Though the colors are not real, the subject is. It is fascinating!

Great photo.

Excellent color scheme

Reminds me of abstract stained-glass.

great job w/ photo shop.

love the colours too. ps if you've time please visit my portfolio to critique. thanks.

Rarely do I enjoy obviously digitally manipulated photos. THis is an exception. Very nice. I would hang it on my wall also.

Looks like batic art...

why spoil a good picture with these colors?

It seems to me that the answer to your question stems from your need or desire to take photographs. If you take photos to record the reality of the world, then probably no manipulation would be acceptable. If you, like a lot of us, take photos to express an artistic yearning or self expression then anything goes. In that case it seems immaterial whether or not the end results would or would not still be considered a photograph. The photograph becomes no more than the blank canvas or the lump of clay. It is merely a means to the end, an artistic medium, as is the camera to the unmanipulated photograph.

I love this picture. I know you don't usually alter colors, but this was done very well. I look forward to a print of this.