Hyde Park II

Deceptively simple yet interesting. Nice job.

I wonder what you think about this picture

You did a good job with this picture in photoshop.

Love this one. Very good indeed. !

Great, can you enlighten us how you got to the final image ?

I love it ! A little bit tilted ? anyway, a very good job !

Nice composition - a eye catcher!

I'm tired of manipulated photos being qualified as a POW. Maybe there should be another website for graphics design and photo manipulation. We've become confused of what photography is...or was.

This is in response to the previous critic's comment on photo manipulation.

 

1. This photo is not a Photograph of the Week. It is a photo placed under the "Critique" section.

 

2. Since when is photo manipulation not photography?

 

3. Graphic design and photo manipulation are two completely different types of art.

 

Digital manipulation of conventional photographs is indeed photography, and it is indeed art. You start with an already note-worthy photograph, and manipulate and "tweak" it even more to get the effect you desired. If you bothered to read the details on the photo, you would see it was taken with color negative film. It isn't even a digital original! And even if it was taken with a digital camera, it still would be photography. Times have changed, and I hope you will be able to broaden your horizons in the future. Don't be afraid of something simply because it is different.

 

By the way, just for the record, I shoot with manual camera: a Nikon FE.

Thanks Justin. That's exactly it. Photography in itself IS manipulation, and -as you said - it is not possible to create an outstanding picture from a bad original. I mean you can't polish a piece of cole to get a diamond, can you ?

Concerning this pic: I took it in Hyde Park. I had one chance of taking pictures there, the weather was far from good (typical english weather). So why not having some fun with photoshop afterwards ?

It is a very nice picture and a good small discussion on digital manipulation

(I am on the Justin and Reto's side). You did not stamp out a small white piece of something

(on the left). Why? Here, a friend of mine is always saying "Do not make it ideal, always

leave some impurities in the picture". Maybe, he is right. Blago

What constitutes manipulation? Most photos represent a three-dimensionalview in two dimensions. Is that manipulation? Put a ruler on a print and you'll find many objects are not life size. Manipulation? Colorful scenes may be rendered intones of gray. We may be shown only a fragment of what would be visible to thenaked eye. Wide-angle or long-focus lenses are used to create startling effects.Long or short exposures give us images that are visually striking but clearlyunnatural. Some photographers actually dodge or burn in parts of an image, or usefilters or flash, or tilt the easel, or hand-color prints, or solarize or cross-process thefilm, or choose a grainy emulsion, or tweak contrast by using a particular grade ofpaper, or shoot with litho stock or infrared. These are all tricks meant to foolus, to manipulate the image and cloud the mind of the beholder.

Ever read Sir Philip Sidney's "Defense of Poesy"? Like other apologists of his time,he was defending not poetry per se but what we'd call fiction, which was scorned bygrave men as being demonstrably untrue. It's a case of Plato (who condemnedpoetry and music) versus Aristotle, a fight that Aristotle won long ago by a knockout. Call it unfair if you will, but Plato never really had a prayer.

I absolutely love this picture.

Reto, This is my favourite of the b/w desaturated portfolio. Regards

that it reto your going in my intresting folder,great work