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Response to Dramatic Light (Response #97)

Uploaded 644 Days Ago by Roger - 8 comments

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rValley said 644 days ago:

This is a pleasant image. Not quite as striking as others though.

trzebiat said 643 days ago:

Good shot. Abit noisy though.

King said 643 days ago:

This sky is more balanced vis-a-vis the landscape than some, which is to say the image is processed with restraint. I don't care much for the HDR, surreal and, basically, unrealistic landscapes that have no connection to normal human experience. I don't mean this to be a blanket statement, because some of the preceding can add an other-earthly beauty, stretching the normal to the sublime. But one must pick one's battles.

Good work.

Roger said 643 days ago:

Please note that this is not an HDR image.

King said 624 days ago:

Roger...I'm sorry as I see I wasn't clear. I meant to say that I like your photo because it was *not* HDR, surreal or unrealistic. The fact that your landscape is restrained is a favorable thing. My clumsy effort was to contrast your image to some of the over-the-top images that get a lot of attention but that employ gimmicks.

@trszbiat. "Noise" seems to be your major complaint with images. There is nothing wrong with that. You've helped me see noise that I was overlooking and I thank you for that. However, I make a distinction between grain, as in this image, and digital noise, which I don't see so much here. Maybe there is a more subtle interaction between grain and digital noise that you can see, but that I don't yet have the sophistication to discern.

VernonTrent said 624 days ago:

@trszbiat.
if you want to know what "noise" is, take a look at my pics :-))))
noise/grain on pics is like the small hairs on you skin. :-) it makes an image _unique_

Roger said 624 days ago:

Whether you call it grain or noise, the "texture" in this picture is a non-deliberate by-product of post-processing.

I wouldn't have uploaded the picture if I thought that it had excessive grain/noise.

King said 624 days ago:

@Roger, who said, "I wouldn't have uploaded the picture if I thought that it had excessive grain/noise." Some of my favorite film images (talking here about b/w photographic prints), have been deliberately very grainy. When done right, I think grain can be a beautiful element of a photograph.

I agree that your image does not have excessive grain. Obviously, I know little about digital "noise" so I can't speak to that. I'm hoping to learn how to ditize a grainy film image such that the essence of the grain can be translated without looking so much like digital noise.

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