bobatkins

Well, I never said it wasn't a valid experimental technique. I just said I didn't like it. I don't like the technique, I don't like the effect and it's been overdone by lots of photographers so it's not original either. There are probably lots of other techniques I don't like. I'm sure there are apps out there that will give a look like this with a couple of clicks. Just because you have a tool doesn't mean you have to use it. Not all experiments are successful.

I believe that Picasso's early work wasn't appreciated by critics either...and Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" caused a near riot with things being thrown at the orchestra, fighting breaking out in the audience and critics calling it puerile. Sometimes art isn't appreciated in its own time. Sometimes though, it's just not very good and nobody remembers those attempts. Presumably Edward Weston had 29 failures (at least to his eyes) before he shot "Pepper #30".

 

I don't really see the point of making a photograph look like a painting unless you're selling it to someone to hang above their fireplace who can't afford to have a real painting done. Again, that may just be me, but I like my photographs to look like photographs. Perhaps I'm missing something and I don't have a good appreciation of art. Perhaps my view of photography is too literal.

Reminds me of those "clowns on velvet" paintings. Not to my taste at all. Really can't find anything positive to say about it. Sorry, but that's the way it is. Just because you turn up all the knobs to 11 doesn't turn something that's fairly mundane into something that's attractive.

On the other hand they wouldn't paint clown on velvet if nobody bought them, so I guess there's an audience for just about anything. It's just not me.

These are 100% crops from JPEGs taken out of the camera with no aberration correction applied. They were taken with the 19/2.8 DN at f2.8 on an Olympus E-PL1. Edeg sharpness is pretty good. There is a touch of CA visble, but that's pretty easily corrected.

100% crops from an image shot with the Sigma 19mm f2.8 DN | A lens at f6.3 on an Olympus E=PL1. The crop on the left shows excellent sharpness in the center if the frame. The center crop shows the extreme edge of the frame with no corrections applied. Normally the camera would apply correction to a JPEG, so this is a crop from an uncorrected RAW (.otf) file. On the right is RAW image with CA correction applied. You can see that the edge sharpness now comes close to that at the center

Juvenile opsrey practicing landing!

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Feathery Fireworks

Bronx Zoo in NYC.

Thanks for your thoughts. I cropped and framed the image as I did because I wanted this to be a portrait, one that could equally well have been a human or a gorilla. There's obviously great intelligence expressed in his face and that's what I wanted to show.

What is he thinking?

Waskally Wabbit...

Bad hair day?

At sunset. Shot with a 300mm lens.

I find this a very well balanced image. Love the curve of the stem which leads the eye though the frame to the burst of color and the slighly unusual view showing the back of the flower rather than the face.

A view of the river

Do you know what it is?

smokers

This was just an image posted as a test of some system function, not really an image for critique.

 

I believe it was shot with an EF500/4.5L lens with a 2x TC attached.

test

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