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Photography Vol.1

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carly

Sometimes overlooked or hidden with all the other amazing artworks here; there are many great photographers on CS!

New exhibition released today, Photography Vol.1!

If you're unsure where our wonderful exhibitions live, they are listed under galleries :)
Check it out now!

Reply 08 Oct 2007

meredith

Tight collection and put together wonderfully, Carly! Love it.

Quote 08 Oct 2007

james

I swear I'll be in there some day!

(I find one of the things with the photographers right now (which isn't their fault) is that people play with their photos in photoshop or whatever... I'm the sort of person who keeps it au natural so it's hard to keep up. ;) )

Quote 09 Oct 2007

james

And for the record, and excellent compilation!

Quote 09 Oct 2007

carly

James; professional photographers use photoshop as a processing tool for digital photographs in the same way that they would process their film in the darkroom.

There are other tricks they use to manipulate photographs, for example, ND filters. These can alter colour.

They also dodge and burn, whereby shifting more/less light over certain areas to over/under expose.

These are all the same techniques that people often use in photoshop, so don't assume that it means they are being unnatural, or sacreligious in some way, digital photographs require post processing as well and need to adapt to the digital environment.

Quote 09 Oct 2007

meredith

hence the name "Photo" Shop James! :b Imagine a digital dark room.

i think you just need to sit down one day and ruin all of your au natural photographs in it :]

Quote 09 Oct 2007

luisaraujo

i sort of agree with james.. but sometimes it;s just about the creativity of the work rather then what was used..
i mean changing the colors is not going to make the shot different.. its simply enhancing it. or changing its character.
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Quote 09 Oct 2007

meredith

totally true you cannot polish a peice of shit.

Quote 09 Oct 2007

meredith

well you can but it would be pretty messy...

Quote 09 Oct 2007

carly

luisaraujo said:

..i mean changing the colors is not going to make the shot different.. its simply enhancing it. or changing its character.

In other words...it DOES change it!

We are not talking about manipulating here to the point of unrecognisability. The point is about enhancing. I have rescued a few of my photographs simply just by tweaking minor things in photoshop, which I otherwise would not have shown publicly.

Quote 09 Oct 2007

meredith

carly said:

I have rescued a few of my photographs simply just by tweaking minor things in photoshop, which I otherwise would not have shown publicly.

Same!

Quote 09 Oct 2007

james

I meant that some are just so obviously done and changed. Colors is one thing that I may change in my band photos and stuff, but otherwise I don't like to change them any more... at that point it's "sacrilegious" and I don't consider it photography anymore.

Yeah carly, I may be 16 but I know what I can do in a dark room. It's just some people take it wayyy too far.

Quote 09 Oct 2007

pixelmedia

meredith said:

totally true you cannot polish a peice of shit.

Yup and some people don't understand that. They think it doesn't matter when some (original) photograph comes out bad, as long as you know how to handle photoshop.

Quote 12 Oct 2007

renyn

Everything you can do in photoshop can be made in traditional photography. Absolutely everything... but require more skills, more time and a deep sense of creativity. A darkroom is a photoshop itself along with your techniques on how to use a camera... but no one want to work weeks when time is a important factor.

People should just stop thinking like photographers 100years ago... Photography evolved and photographers are not the ones who choose the way to make it evolve... but the people who react in front of it. Photographer job is to bring a emotion to people who look at what you have captured.... whatever what you do and what you change on the photos hehe.

But yes, theres a limit on what you can do on a photo... but even after that limit, its called photo.manipulation... just another kind of expression in photography..... i talk way too much ;o

Quote 13 Oct 2007

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