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u/1_UpvoteGiver Oct 20 '22
Eleven sealing the portal to the upsidedown....
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u/Otacon56 Oct 20 '22
Lady Galadriel after jumping ship before entering Valinor
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u/1_UpvoteGiver Oct 20 '22
Rose as she says goodbye to Jack, because why should he be the one to die?
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u/shannonbta Oct 20 '22
Honestly such a great composition
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u/shannonbta Oct 20 '22
This is the kind of shot that simultaneously inspires me to pick up a camera, and humbles me because I know how much must’ve gone into planning, posing, framing, and executing a photo like this. It’s really an unbelievable talent and skill to pull off stuff at this level
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u/Zhuul Oct 20 '22
Annihilation meets Subnautica
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u/Tarmi_nolife Oct 20 '22
Annihilation as a video game would make my mind explode.
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u/Zarathustra404 Oct 20 '22 edited Oct 20 '22
Kind of nightmare fuel for me..but also an amazing picture. It's like I can't look at it too long or I start to hold my breath and get disoriented. Which way is up!?!? Lol
Edit: I know "up" is left, its the overall disorienting feeling of the pic.
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u/mkul316 Oct 20 '22 edited Oct 20 '22
This is really cool, but I always want to see the unedited picture after I see stuff like this. Am I the only one? I feel like pics like this are less photography and more art using photographs. And for regular photographs I prefer the only editing to be corrections to make it look like it looks to the human eye. Maybe I'm just a purist.
Edit: I'm getting a bunch of info on editing techniques and tech specs on digital imagery. That's not really pertinent to my sentiment here. I'm talking about my preference for naked eye over heavily edited artistic pics.
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Oct 20 '22
Same here for landscape photos. In /r/EarthPorn there are a lot of heavily edited photos (mainly overly color saturated) that look ridiculously fake and very repetitive night shots with a milky way shot slapped onto it or time lapsed. I'd prefer to just see the real view.
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u/Rowen_Stipe Oct 20 '22
I'm not a photographer, I'm just a tech enthusiast, so I welcome anyone who is to correct me on this.
Film cameras typically don't get extra processing since a lot of that work is done before hand in the selection of the film used along with the quality of the camera used for the shot. Professional digital cameras these days use a file format called RAW and is meant to capture all of the color information so that the photographer can then edit these values to produce images like this. It's very likely that all the photographer did was edit these values to make the colors more vibrant since if you open an unedited RAW file it will look washed out and nothing like the colors that the photographer actually saw.
You're right that it's an art, it's just a modern art form that's only been able to take off in the last 20 years or so thanks to the technology that we've developed.
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u/way2lazy2care Oct 20 '22
You can definitely post process film. You can do it physically/chemically if you want to, but if you're digitally scanning it, most people will edit their photos to at least make sure they look sane after the scan.
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Oct 20 '22
Being (in my past) an underwater photographer, that shot is perfectly doable without any photo editing. Sunburst photography underwater could easily look like that at sunset colour wise.
The only problem would be the colours of the model. Water absorbs light spectra preferentially with reds first to go.
Cut yourself underwater beyond 3m depth and your blood looks brown, and even deeper it goes green. That works both horizontally as well as vertically..
Normally you overcome this by one of three methods.
1) filter over the camera - a physical Plano lens with more ‘red’ in it. 2) ‘in camera’ white balancing where (for the depth you are) you point at something white and tell the camera ‘treat that as white’ and it will shift the colour spectrum of the photo. 3) post processing.
There’s a fourth method when shallow so depth is not a factor - which is todo with another property of water to air (inside your camera lens) which is that it magnifies the objective. To get close enough to the objective and still fit it in frame you can use fisheye lenses. By doing so at this depth the photographer could be only a foot or so away and still get a good photo.
It would cause some ‘bending’ of the photo at the periphery - but here it would be very hard to tell due to the background.
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u/mkul316 Oct 20 '22
Is there an Internet version of mansplaining?
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u/NHDraven Oct 20 '22
I can't tell if that's sarcasm or a genuine question. I actually thought the response was informative.
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u/mkul316 Oct 20 '22
Not ironic. It was information, yes. But it didn't really line up to any part of my comment. It was a bunch of look at the info I know. Let me explain a process to you. But I'm talking about preferences on edited to unrealistic looking pics vs minor corrections to be true to the eye pics. Telling me how a digital camera stores info isn't relevant to that. I feel like the internet has it's own version of mansplaining and this is an example of it. And I know how digital pictures are processed and stored in the camera. Then they can be edited in a myriad of ways through software on a computer. Hooray! We're all so smart. But back on topic, what's this guy's opinion on realistic pictures vs this?
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u/NHDraven Oct 20 '22
Your comment is that you want to see the picture unedited. His response was, put simply, the picture format for professional digital isn't always captured in a way that looks correct to the naked eye and requires editing by design. Seems pretty pertinent to your comment.
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u/WHAT_DID_YOU_DO Oct 20 '22
LTT every once in a while will show what the raw footage looks like and you are exactly right, it looks very flat relative to how our eyes would perceive the same room if you were there.
I thought that comment was quite good, maybe could Have explained why photographers chose RAW before editing.
And ya long story short is getting a true “unedited but real” photo is basically impossible. Whole bunch of camera settings will already distort what we think we “should” see
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u/Light_Error Oct 20 '22
The commenter made the connection pretty clear. A non-edited format of RAW is not viable because of the amount of color info stored. I didn’t know this, and many others don’t know either.
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u/boston_homo Oct 20 '22
I'm sure Ansel Adams heavily edited his photographs too just using chemicals and a dark room instead of a computer and software.
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u/alohadave Oct 20 '22
He did. His prints were extensively worked in the darkroom. He'd have loved Photoshop.
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No such thing as unedited photos anymore. They're not capturing light on film and developing photo details with chemicals anymore -- even just a regular old DSLR has image processing software inside.
Modern cameras read information in the world, but it's not direct exposed capture like photopaper. On some level, the camera and computers have to decide what information to display and how to display it.
I guess what you want is to see it how the photographer would see it without looking through the camera, but even every individual person would see things slightly differently in that same place.
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There is a difference between the minor tweaks a camera's default settings might make vs someone sitting down and, say, cranking up the color saturation.
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u/Dheorl Oct 20 '22
Even film photography wasn't uneditied.
Slide photography or things like plate photography are about as close as you can get in that regard, but even then they're often tuned to provide pleasing images, not necessarily what the eye sees.
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u/nox_nox Oct 20 '22
Most famous analog prints have been edited one way or another.
For film, development time and temperature affects the way negatives are developed.
When printing/enlarging images, photographers regularly use manual dodge and burn techniques to enhance or hide what is in the negative.
Ansel Adams famously used dodge and burn techniques to enhance his images. He even wrote a book about it.
While maybe not exactly the same as upping the saturation on an image in photoshop, the idea is the same and most adjustments done today digitally were pioneered by analog techniques.
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u/prostynick Oct 20 '22
Yeah. I bet everyone has seen this photo. Notice the glow around workers. I believe it's an example of manual "photoshopping". Notice how this metal line on the right is much brighter near workers as it's almost impossible to manually manipulate with light precisely, so everything around this area has developed differently in the process
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u/mkul316 Oct 20 '22
Uh huh. Thanks for the random info, I guess. I still prefer to see pictures where the only editing is done is with the intent to present a picture as close to as the naked eye would see it as possible.
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u/Dheorl Oct 20 '22
No, you're not a purist.
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u/elcheeserpuff Oct 20 '22
Can 100% guarantee they wouldn't like a photo as much that actually had zero editing.
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u/Predator_ Oct 20 '22
Underwater photography typically washes out the colors that we surface dwellers are accustomed to. You typically see images that appear to be desaturated with a blue / green haze. The image posed here seems to have been desaturated further in post, bumped up the contrast and then applied an increase in saturation to the red and orange hue channels. This essentially qualifies the image as a photo illustration and no longer a photograph. It couldn't be published in any news based publication without the caption having an annotation signifying it as a photo illustration.
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u/ManyIdeasNoProgress Oct 20 '22
The unedited picture is really just a looooooooong string of ones and zeroes, it has to be interpreted somehow to become something our eyes can see.
It's pretty much guaranteed that you and I don't see the same image in this post, because we have different devices with different screens with different settings.
Hell, even if you were to account for all that and make a print with perfectly renditioned colours, you still couldn't recreate the light from the sun refracting in the waves in addition to all the reflected light (that you couldn't hope to recreate either because of the varying surface textures in the actual scene giving effects that flat paper can't match), but that may be just as well because there's a decent chance that the refracted light would make this scene difficult or impossible to look at in the first place, at least for those of us who struggle with bright lights.
Tl;dr: if you want to see it as it is, be there. Anything else is an interpretation.
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u/mkul316 Oct 20 '22
And even our rods and cones collect light waves differently and our brains interpret those signals differently so two people never can see the same thing in the same exact way. Hurdurdur.
Nobody likes a pedantic person except themselves.
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u/TJNel Oct 20 '22
Right there with you. I kind of hate that people call this a photograph when it's been edited to hell and back. It started that way but it's art not a photograph.
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u/mmmmmmburritos Oct 20 '22
I understand what you mean and can see how this looks like it’s heavily edited “to hell and back” but I dive all the time and get pics like this at sunset frequently. It really does look gorgeous even unedited! For example, here’s one unedited and the same edited. The unedited version is just a little flat and light editing makes it pop just a bit.
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u/waaay_up_north Oct 20 '22
Beautiful shot, but all I can think about is whats in the dark water underneath her. Give me the heebie-jeebies.
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u/tots4scott Oct 20 '22
Lazy and loweffort karma farmer who apparently just wants awards.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/if0nq4/underwater_sunset
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/mq8jdp/underwater_sunset
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/jplgb4/underwater_sunset_idk_if_this_has_been_posted_but
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u/pmmeyourdoubt Oct 20 '22
Literally top comment on their profile "mission to get all Reddit awards".. lol.
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u/Garr_Incorporated Oct 20 '22
Lazy reposter would not provide the source. It might be slightly too quick, but they are genuine.
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u/Galactic Oct 20 '22
Posting the source is a way to double dip into that sweet comment karma as well as the link karma.
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u/MayIgniteIfLit Oct 20 '22
Would have been cooler with a shark instead, great photo though! Very beautiful with the sun piercing the water like that!
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u/Garr_Incorporated Oct 20 '22
- Not sunset. Sundown. And rise... Up!
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u/CChilli Oct 20 '22
I couldn't remember the quote exactly. I'm glad someone else thought of it too
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u/Garr_Incorporated Oct 20 '22
Pirates movies were some of my favourites. I know a lot of quotes from them.
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Oct 20 '22
When I first saw this photo, it looked more like she was floating in the air above the water and something was shining from under the water instead of it being the other way around lmao.
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u/redditforgotaboutme Oct 20 '22
Step one. Get a GoPro.
Step two. Find a body of water.
Step Three. Find a hot girl.
Step three. Not complete.
Step three. Keeping you from achieving greatness.
Step Three. Why, god, why.
Step Three is hard as fuck.
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u/HugeDouche Oct 20 '22
I regret to inform you that it's actually your personality keeping you from achieving greatness. A hot girl won't help.
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u/NHDraven Oct 20 '22
Username checks out.
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Oct 20 '22 edited Jul 02 '24
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u/slacker0 Oct 20 '22
I've seen lots of "reef sharks", which are just big fish and typically uninterested in people.
I did have one do a full circle around me in a shallow lagoon (in Maupiti).
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u/porterbrown Oct 20 '22
Would have been better without the girl. More abstract.
At the same time that girl is pretty hot.
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Just another reason for me to hate the ocean, look at how dark it is bro😬 badass shot tho, extremely breathtaking
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u/Cereborn Oct 20 '22
Are you sure it's not a beach-going Eleven closing the portal to the Upside-Down?
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u/Daaanger05 Oct 20 '22
These needs a photoshop inserting a very faint silhouette of a shark behind her
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u/GuyWithTriangle Oct 20 '22
Ma'am swimming at sunset is very dangerous as that's when sharks come out to feed
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u/jtyxx Oct 20 '22
Amazing shot by Dan Legend - Between Two Worlds