few for two

I guess they were just having a down day. The fella looks well fed and the dog looks healthy with a shinny coat. :-)

Colors which reminds me of a painting. Amazing what a computer can do, and please, continue "shooting".

So many persons have already admired this pic, I just want to ask: is it spontanoeus or staged?

Have to put my two cents in...this is not a photograph, this is a photo-illustration.

And we need to clarify the difference. Because I think that they are actually two

different genres. If you don't take my word for it, just look at photojournalism. Any

photo which has been retouched to the degree that this "picture" has been is called

photo-illustration. It takes the guessing out of it, which it should, and let's us

appreciate what someone has created in the computer, which has its own beauty and

merits, and what has been done in the camera. That way, we can appreciate both

genres and pushing the limits in each. But to me, this should be renamed, "photo-

illustration of the week".

Photo illustration as a descriptor for the genre this image falls into seems apt. That's no problem. But there is something here that clashes a bit, rubs hairs the wrong way, screeches like nails on a blackboard. The technical approach is truly very slick, but the pose is very slapstick. I have a dog, too, and I truly see the humor. But IMHO this would have worked better using Weegee's technical approach; huge on-camera flash, over development, and printed in a big rush. Sort of like a cartoon looks better as a hurried sketch (although you know the artist took great pains to make it so.

 

Clearly Rasto looks at the world through photography a lot differently than many of us do. I tell myself that that's what photography is all about - showing us something in a way we hadn't seen it before. I really should look at Rasto's work some more. I should also sit through an Ice Cube CD.

Many thanks for your interest in my photographs and for all your comments, both positive and negative. This picture has been taken as you see it. Nothing has been retouched and nothing there is pasted from other images. It took me about 1 hour to take it. The biggest problem was to achieve proper expressions of both the models (man and dog) at the same time. My wife helped me to ?keep the interest? of the dog. Without her help the picture would be impossible. I took a lot of images (a full 500 MB CF card) from which only one (the last but one) was usable ? that is the one you see. The food on the plate is not cheese, it is a traditional food from this region.

 

Several of you expressed interest in the technology of creating of this image. I hope you understand that I do not want to share with you all my ?tricks?. But I can tell you that:

 

* for the lighting of the scene I have used 3 halogen lights (500 Watt each),

* as the background served painted plasterboard,

* in PS I generally apply only global corrections (levels, curves, contrast enhancement, color balance, sharpening, minor local retouching (e. g. removing spots caused by sensor dust) ? but no local heavy retouching and coloring. This image was no exception.

* I do not use any special PS-plug-ins.

 

Once more thanks for all the comments.

 

Rasto

It?s really nice image, but, sorry to say one thing... the last times, this site don?t show only photography, it shows images with too much photoshop effects, so it takes off originality and transform a picture in other thing. So, if we look to the name of site we can read photo.net not, photoshop.net

Sorry, Rasto. I assumed it was painted to some extint in PS, based on some of the earlier comments. Thanks for clarifying your technique for us.

 

In any case, the lighting and tone of the image has quite an interesting look worthy of study -- whether the look is achieved through lighting or image editing is less relevant (to me) than the end result.

Fascinating... Everyone was convinced you had done major PS retouching, painted with light, etc, but now you tell us you only made global changes. Thus, no "painting with light." So the question, then, is how you accomplished such a beautiful image without major manipulation! Like everyone else, I would love a tutorial, but I understand the need to protect your trade secrets. Keep 'em coming. Wonderful work.

I can't help giving you 7/7 everytime I see this interesting picture.

I think you got many ideas in your mind not only good skills of PS but also miscellaneous subjects of normal life.This shot is worth of calling a wow for me even I see it ten years later.

Like this very much. Great humour, composition, toning, tension.

Great concept! best regards