zebban 0 Posted October 27, 2003 This image was taken on my way home from the camerastore with my new digital camera, supplementary work in Photoshop. Appreciate all your comments and advice. Link to comment
alex_faust 0 Posted October 27, 2003 I love this image, excellent colors with that damp gloss. My only gripe is that big empty sky. Good shot! Link to comment
roberto_carli 0 Posted October 27, 2003 It seems the apocalypse.....great colors contrast,well done. Link to comment
laheist 0 Posted October 29, 2003 It's a nice photo, but the water looks too altered in that it gets a lot brighter towards the trees and doesn't match the sky. It looks to me by the horizon line and that the angle of the light on the buildings does not correlate with the light on the buildings that the sky was added in Photoshop, that it was a plain gray sky before and that you tinkered with it. Link to comment
kent_tolley2 0 Posted October 29, 2003 At the risk of angering the photoshoppers I don't think this photograph looks real. It does not look like the world I know and love. Link to comment
ron_van_elst1 0 Posted October 29, 2003 This is definitely a composite. Why do you 'photographers' haven't got the 'guts' to say so in your comment? You can clearly see there is no mirror of the clouds in the water. It seems the sky has been pasted in later to create a much more dramatic scene then it really was at the time of this shot. There's also a lot of (much too obvious..) dodging and burning in this shot. I rate it average... sorry. Link to comment
Guest Guest Posted October 30, 2003 The JPEG compression makes it difficult to ascertain for certain if this is, in fact a composite. After all, it may well have been taken on a planet in a solar sytem with more than one sun. If've seen quite a few around here. Link to comment
andrea_garza 0 Posted October 30, 2003 Well, first off I "LOVE" it. If its your first image, then you sure have a lot of more great ones to come. And I for one will be looking for them. As far as the "photoshop" goes. Almost every single top photographer on this site is a photoshop pro. Look at Ilona Wellmann, and all the others, they live in photoshop and their images are constantly rated as the top photos on the site. Well, you did include "supplementary work in Photoshop" in your own words....I'm not so sure why it is that people think you are "hiding" the fact that you've used photoshop...maybe they just have trouble reading sometimes. Oh well, photoshop or not, its a great and powerful subject and the composition is certainly top notch, so and A for effort and for aesthetics. You've done quite well. Link to comment
zebban 0 Posted October 30, 2003 This is definitely not a composite. But I love to play around with my images in Photoshop! Link to comment
sprouty 0 Posted November 3, 2003 Bernt, how about posting an unmanipulated version just for comparision puposes? It definitely is a strange image with the light coming from different sources. Link to comment
sprouty 0 Posted November 3, 2003 Hmm, interesting comparison. You certainly have added an element of drama to a nice but somewhat ordinary scene. The lighting in the first image still confuses me (lighter and darker in areas that you wouldnt expect it), but the more I look at it the more I like it in a "graphic" sort of way. Regards, Link to comment
donald_mongeon 0 Posted November 4, 2003 I'm probably not much of a critic, but except for the open sky, I think it's fantastic. I like the surreal quality of the lighting. Link to comment
reed_caster 0 Posted November 5, 2003 My feelings are divided when I look at this image. I find myself at first intrigued and then fascinated by the mystery and color. But as I study it and acknowledge the obvious artificial qualities I soon dismiss it as fantasy. It has nothing that I find important in photography. It becomes the painters version of photo-realism. I look to photographs to see what others see - not what they would like to see. I want to see through the photographers eyes what I overlook and in the process of that study train my own eyes to look closer at the world in hopes that some day the less obvious unexpectedly pops out and I see it! This is not an indictment of photoshop - a wonderful tool - but I sometimes see it as a layer between reality and the eye. Link to comment
laheist 0 Posted November 12, 2003 Thanks for posting the original. I think that I like it better without the alterations, but I am sure there are others who prefer the altered state... Link to comment
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