What does the "group" think of the attached illustration?

[pnodrog]

The above graphical illustration in a real life image.

Real life looks really boring...... I far preferred the imaginary photographs of your new grandchild.....

[Abitconfused]

"Real life looks really boring..." Yes, Yes, Yes!!!
If you walk down most streets and mix all the colors you typically see in your mind's "color blender" you get a middle gray. Its the job of the artist within the photographer to isolate a slice of life for the sake of color, emotion and probably something else too. Images that reflect reality are captured by spy satellites. Images that stimulate emotion and/or thinking are captured by photographers. But all of them exist somewhere between black point and white point given a particular exposure. Ah! exposure, that's the trick. Then there is composition...the real struggle.

[pnodrog]

"Real life looks really boring..." Yes, Yes, Yes!!!
If you walk down most streets and mix all the colors you typically see in your mind's "color blender" you get a middle gray. Its the job of the artist within the photographer to isolate a slice of life for the sake of color, emotion and probably something else too. Images that reflect reality are captured by spy satellites. Images that stimulate emotion and/or thinking are captured by photographers. But all of them exist somewhere between black point and white point given a particular exposure. Ah! exposure, that's the trick. Then there is composition...the real struggle.

When I worked for Kodak (just over 40years ago) they had a reference colour that was a sort of a muddy green and was supposed to be the colour you would get if you averaged all the colours from millions of prints. We also had negative film version to help calibrate the printers when the paper stock changed. The rolls of paper for colour printing had batch numbers, and corrections on the side of the boxes such as -05Y, +10M, -10C.

It is so long ago I cannot remember the details other than I found the average colour very boring and a big disappointment....

[Saorsa]

It is so long ago I cannot remember the details other than I found the average colour very boring and a big disappointment....

I vaguely remember taking that picture.

[AB26]

Ah! exposure, that's the trick.Then there is composition...the real struggle.

Aha! That is where the histogram is to the photographer what a formulae is to a mathematician. Unless you understand how to interpret it, it has little meaning.

Composition brings out the artist in the photographer.