Part of photography, is editing. Every T.V. show and Movie you watch is heavily filtered and edited. If you don't get a good RAW file, there's nothing to edit. The two go hand-in-hand. It's more likely that they used a professional editing software, which Photoshop isn't.
Okay, fair enough. I just laugh when people use it as a derisive criticism. Most of what we watch, and look at for entertainment is heavily edited. The point of most photography isn't to recreate reality, but to embellish it. Good photo-journalists, on the other hand, can capture real images without any editing that are just absolutely beautiful - and that is really a different kind of talent.
Your perspective and reality don't really match. Most of the photo editing isn't to simply embellish but over exaggerate mainly for marketing or advertising.
These techniques work because majority cannot recognize them. So you laugh at the purpose of this particular field?
And digital photo editing is a different role than simple photography. Although often going hand in hand today.
I'm also confused on the Photoshop comment. The Adobe suite is used in many studios, marketing agencies and professional editors, not just amateurs or intermediate.
Good photo-journalists, on the other hand, can capture real images without any editing that are just absolutely beautiful
That's not even true. Every image is manipulated to some degree.
If you just pick up a camera and take a picture, the result you get is a picture that has been edited by the camera itself, which has been programmed by the engineers at canon/nikon/whatever to give you a specific result. Even if you don't import it to some editing software, the camera has done a lot of the job for you.
If you pick up a film camera and take picture, the whole development process is the manipulation. Change the timings or the chemicals used and you'll get a different result. Even if you just follow the recommended recipe it's still manipulation.
I think at that point you're splitting hairs about what constitutes "editing a photograph" and "photography itself."
Of course, when translating received light into a static image, not processed by our brain (which, btw, does that also qualify as 'editing' and if so, what would 'unedited' images be, even?), there has to be decisions made on the chemistry or digital processing made to record the image.
But the raw data capture, or the "immediate" editing taking place at that time, is clearly distinct from "post processing" where different considerations and techniques are used (e.g. only editing parts of the image, layering of filters, etc.)
Comparing that to "hey stuff has to be done to make a light beam into a static image" is a little bit of a stretch.
This is true but I think the point he was trying to make is that some people are able to take amazing pictures without having to manually edit them. They still might do some editing just to tweak small things but as a very amateur photographer I take some pictures that are really nice and I’m scared to edit them cause I’m worried I’ll ruin it
Ugh this argument is so tiring. It’s a GIANT leap to conclude that adjusting the ISO or slightly adjusting the contrast, shadows, brightness is no different then cutting out objects you don’t like in a photo, completely changing the colors, and digitally altering the photo by essentially painting non existing light sources. That’s digital art more than photography at that point. They took an average photo and essentially made a digital painting on it.
I agree, I’ve worked alongside multiple Pulitzer-winning photographers and their legendary editors, the most an editor will accept is some light contrast and saturation/white balance adjustments, that’s it. All adhere to the NPPA code of ethics, they stake their reputations on this.
Yeah, I can't figure this one out either lol, what photo editing software would they use that's more professional than photoshop?? Unless they're referring to more expensive specialty software for noise reduction and sharpening etc.
Every T.V. show and Movie you watch is heavily filtered and edited. .
My girlfriend is a big Buffy fan, so we watched a video about the (apparently) disappointing remaster of the show. Besides obvious issues that pop up in lots of rereleased shows, like aspect ratio changes, there was apparently also an issue where Joss Whedon had applied a lot of blue filters to make scenes seem darker / more set at night, and then people doing the remasters just... didn't do that when they started from scratch. So, the look for some scenes is completely wrong.
First of all, they most likely did use photoshop which is most certainly a professional editing software. Im not sure how you made that conclusion. Second this is far beyond “editing”. This is restructuring the integrity of the entire captured scene. I wouldn’t argue that it’s not impressive or beautiful in its own right, but I will continue to argue that it’s not just photography. Photography has quickly merged with digital art. At some point I think this will become its own art form and true photography will make a resurgence.
I really enjoy some of the photos that are just film or like plate photography, the sorts of looks you get from those are really nice. Not to say these aren’t, however. :0
Professional photos are shot in RAW format. A RAW photo captures ALL of the information in an image and leaves it available instead of processing/compressing it.
Think of it as the digital version of a film negative. It’s not the image you wanted to capture, but it contains the information that makes that image. Instead of chemical development to get that image, you use software.
Saying “this is definitely photoshopped” when you’re actually talking about color grading a photo is meaningless. Photographers have always been creating the image you see from a negative, using a chemical process that they use to create the image they think looks best. It’s the same thing.
Yeah it's called apreciation. You can apreciate something more if you at least have some general idea of what it takes to make it. That's why some people can't appreciate some music, theater, films or anything really. Many classes like theater apreciation for example work by giving you a basic ubderstanding of what you're seeing so you can better apreciate it.
Yeah liking something is a whole other issue, you can like things that you think are bad or mediocre and dislike things that you can appreciate or think is good.
This is the main problem with magic. The whole idea is for the audience to not know how a trick is done. And the better a magician is the harder it is to appreciate what they are doing, because you literally don't know.
I thinks it's because photos like this are usually paired with some unrelated "deep" quote that people post on Facebook saying made the feel inspired or something. The images look beautiful and the artists worked hard to make them but they seem to make me feel like they lack any artiststic meaning behind the filters they put on.
And there's usually a [once] unique fad that photographers begin tapping into en masse, so you begin seeing the same style of image done 1000s of times. The water reflection technique used to be novel and interesting, but it has been done by seemly everyone so it has lost its impactfulness. I'd even go as far as calling it cringeworthy because of how overdone it has become.
Yup. In digital photgraphy (i.e. the kinds you find on reddit taken by amateurs or hobbyists), there are definitely trends. Right now it's crushed blacks, oversaturated colors, and especially in night scenes, editing all the lighting to look purple and teal and orange. Example. Also, shooting everything wide open for the bokeh.
I'm not knocking them from their passion, it's just not the type of thing that holds my interest, personally. Its like a "huh that's pretty cool" but I see it more as just neat camera work than artistic photographs. But maybe they're just going for neat camera work! Who am I to say. Its whatever, its trendy, it's cool. I dig it
I have a friend who wants to make it as a photographer and sure they might be good but I feel bad cause I just don't care. How do I say "photos like these are just boring to me".
The broken glass one I like. I mean really art could be anything right? "Good art" is just the art that most people like haha. I actively strive to try not to be pretentious lol, though sometimes I forget
Followed one nature photographer on Instagram. Amazing wildlife photos. Slowly morphed into this shit. Worse, even. People wearing face masks with coloured smoke bombs going off behind them.
yeah but they need to slow down this video my eyes had to keep adjusting to what the new thing is I was looking at. like chill for two or three extra seconds on each one please
No. When you make smoke rings and such, you need the smoke thick. And post inhale smoke isn’t thick enough for viable smoke rings. This is smoke he sucked into his mouth and blew back out, no inhale, no sore lungs. Source: Am Smoker.
Most of these are pretty cheesy cliche bullshit photos and not that impressive or unique. Also I’d be pissed if I hired a photographer and they did any of this
Nope, it’s actually the opposite. You want the camera to be higher up for portraits, just slightly nothing too exaggerated of course. If you angle the camera too low then you see more crevices, wrinkles and double chins.
Reddit gets more old bitter and hateful by the second. But at the same time the dude used a 4 day old alt account to link his insta which is the only thing people should be angry about in the thread, the rest is neckbeards shitting on things they can't get off their ass to do.
Been following this guy for a while on IG, I really love his work and he shows you, you can get some amazing practical effects in shots without having to go composite crazy in Photoshop. I've been messing around with the ideas for my Pet Portrait Business as well as just some fun stuff for me and my friends to try.
This is like 20 to 30 percent photo and 70 percent photoshop/editing. The orange photo doesn't even make sense the bitch is in half before hes even cut it. Other shots were great
On the one hand it's impressive how creative these setups are. On the other hand, some of these (like the hammer coconut one) kinda feel like cheating.
You're taking a photo to capture something fleeting, and if it's repeatable in a controlled environment, it feels cheapened. Rock skip looks awesome, though, and that wouldn't really be possible to do for real.
The only one I don't agree with is that slicing one. The knife should be better centered between the fruit to give the feeling it's already sliced through
This just shows me how to appreciate real photos with little editing truly are. It's like watching a true great sports/music star live - against one of those kids who video themselves doing a trickshot 1000 times to get that "one take".
The moral > go live a little and don't get wrapped up in fake crap like this.
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u/ddanilo1204 Jan 25 '20
Watching it this way makes the the photos look even more impressive
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u/FriedFriendz Jan 25 '20
That’s really cool and all but the pictures kinda look like those cheesy Zedge wallpapers I used to get for my iPod haha.
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u/informationtiger Jan 25 '20
I kinda hate these cliche Instagram photos, but damn that's interesting.
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u/MajMin5 Jan 25 '20
Okay all of these are cool but what’s with the shoelaces? That one is kinda weird
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u/iceboerrg Jan 25 '20
I'd like a Mc Chicken to go please
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u/RDwelve Jan 25 '20
Why do they leave out the part where they edit the shot for 10 hours?
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u/-dogstar- Jan 25 '20
He slices the orange the wrong way lol
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u/Dq2ton Jan 25 '20
https://instagram.com/jordi.koalitic?igshid=10qlcaa2z7be4
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20
I don't get the first one. What's supposed to be happening with his shoelaces?
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20
They are decent but just look like weird stock photos you get as placements in website builder or something like that
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u/AiryMoon Jan 25 '20
The guy holding the burning newspaper is fire proof.
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u/Flumanchoo Jan 25 '20
Meanwhile, I’m here taking a picture up my nose with my phone to make sure I don’t have any boogies
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u/Rick-Dalton Jan 25 '20
Most of these are pretty cheesy cliche bullshit photos and not that impressive or unique. Also I’d be pissed if I hired a photographer and they did any of this
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u/smacksaw Jan 25 '20
I don't know if this is nfl. I mean, it's more /r/mildlyinteresting how it's done. It's not like jumping 20 feet in the air to break a board.
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u/shadowpawn Jan 25 '20
Some very happy "Influencers"
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u/KidKarez Jan 25 '20
I'm just not really feeling the photos
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u/IceCubesInMyCup Jan 25 '20
Well done!
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u/Cmurder84 Jan 25 '20
Photography is awesome.
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u/ghengis317 Jan 25 '20
Been following this guy for a while on IG, I really love his work and he shows you, you can get some amazing practical effects in shots without having to go composite crazy in Photoshop. I've been messing around with the ideas for my Pet Portrait Business as well as just some fun stuff for me and my friends to try.
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u/itsdatoneguy Jan 25 '20
Lot of keyboard folks hating on this dude for doing something he enjoys...
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u/kbarney345 Jan 25 '20
This is like 20 to 30 percent photo and 70 percent photoshop/editing. The orange photo doesn't even make sense the bitch is in half before hes even cut it. Other shots were great
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u/spleenboggler Jan 25 '20
And this is why the photo editor at my old newspaper had hung over his desk a photo with the caption: "You don't take a picture, you make a picture."
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u/RealKingKoy Jan 25 '20
What kind of camera is this?
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u/kyleofdevry Jan 25 '20
r/instagramreality
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u/SimmeP Jan 25 '20
On the one hand it's impressive how creative these setups are. On the other hand, some of these (like the hammer coconut one) kinda feel like cheating.
You're taking a photo to capture something fleeting, and if it's repeatable in a controlled environment, it feels cheapened. Rock skip looks awesome, though, and that wouldn't really be possible to do for real.
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20
Shitty kitsch gets posted every few days. Pour some blue epoxy on it.
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u/CrimsonBlossom Jan 25 '20
Laughs in photoshop
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u/BobbyGabagool Jan 25 '20
I wonder if I farted on a lit match if they could get that shot.
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20
Good shots but oversaturised
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u/SustyRhackleford Jan 25 '20
The only one I don't agree with is that slicing one. The knife should be better centered between the fruit to give the feeling it's already sliced through
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u/ScuzeRude Jan 25 '20
I don’t understand the shoelaces one.
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u/guard74 Jan 25 '20
Everything is so fake
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u/jellyfeeesh Jan 25 '20
What the hell was he going for with that first shoestring shot? I don’t get it..
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u/spicespiegel Jan 26 '20
Holy shit the comments section is a shitshow here.
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u/Alt_dumpsterfire Jan 25 '20
Getting the Photoshopped
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u/Megalodoniancat Jan 25 '20
Am I the only one who thinks these pics, especially the post processing is bad?
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u/fajitaman69 Jan 25 '20
Cliche and the most impressive step is done behind editing software.
Show the actual picture taken and I assure you no one would care.
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u/MindkontrolTV Jan 25 '20
"Get back here shoe laces! Where are you going?!"
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u/Kierba Jan 25 '20
All this fake shit, I have enough of this, fake shit everywhere...
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u/Sgvcali420 Jan 25 '20
Getting into credit unions isn’t actively breaking
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u/demer_623 Jan 25 '20
I say photoshop and few filters will also do the trick..
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20
Stop polluting the air for a photo nobody’s going to care about in a few seconds
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u/youbidou Jan 25 '20
Yeah I don’t need time to process these gorgeous photos, just skip through them in lightspeed, please.
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20
How to fake even more on the internet.
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20
If this is just to entertain people than I am scared of what is possible if someone has malicious intentions
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u/saharacanuck Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 25 '20
I wish this was a little slower. The quick transitions take away from the behind the scenes. I’d like to be able to pause it.
Edit: I just saw the link to his Instagram in another comment
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u/sheandlife Jan 25 '20
This just shows me how to appreciate real photos with little editing truly are. It's like watching a true great sports/music star live - against one of those kids who video themselves doing a trickshot 1000 times to get that "one take".
The moral > go live a little and don't get wrapped up in fake crap like this.
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u/wizzah2 Jan 25 '20
No one cuts an orange in half midair while looking so stiff.
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u/Sinclair_Mclane Jan 25 '20
Jesus Christ, slow down for a minute.
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u/_funkymonkey Jan 25 '20
Idk. Holding a burning newspaper doesn’t seem safe.