Enhancing or Defiling: Post-Processing & 'Reality'

[IzzieK]

just started a 3 day cruise to turkey and got bored... have avoided this thread thus far and just trolled through all 6 pages.... all i can say is:

Izzie chuck us some popcorn will ya?

Do jack in the box have chocolate on them?

Nope! Allergic to chocolate though I've to chuck a few down the gurgle then get sick afterwards so two or three during the year isn't that bad. Gotta have one every now and then...Hubby just corrected me -- it's called Cracker Jack. And it used to have those toys inside it...Dang! It's mainly caramel popcorn, nice for when you are reading long threads like this one...

[IzzieK]

just started a 3 day cruise to turkey and got bored... have avoided this thread thus far and just trolled through all 6 pages.... all i can say is:

Izzie chuck us some popcorn will ya?

Do jack in the box have chocolate on them?

Nope! Allergic to chocolate though I've to chuck a few down the gurgle then get sick afterwards so two or three during the year isn't that bad. Gotta have one every now and then...Hubby just corrected me -- it's called Cracker Jack. And it used to have those toys inside it...Dang! It's mainly caramel popcorn, nice for when you are reading long threads like this one...

[William W]

It's fascinating to me that RPS chose to use the term, "Pictorial," in this context. At the turn of the 20th century, the terms, "pictorial photography" and "pictorialism," described a look that was exactly the opposite of the purist attitude . . .

Yes! - I hadn't thought of that angle.

Thanks.

WW

[lukaswerth]

With regard to pictorialism:

Actually, I have extensively busied myself with what I prefer to call alternative photographic processes (which were in wide use in the age of pictorialism), and I intend to continue this endeavor in the near future.

I have recently also made considerable use the HDR-possibility (not merging frames, but making used of the pronounced contrast which is possible o achieve with it). Here an example:



My concern is not whether I rendered the mendicant naturally, my concern is whether I got my interpretation of her as I wanted. And with regard to using software, my concern is whether I am not really following a stereotyped path laid out by the software available. I am reasonably satisfied with the result I post here, and I do hope this is my style, but the lingering question remains, and therefore this would be an image I intend to print also as a gum or casein print, in completely analog fashion, in the color pigments I choose.

Lukas

[William W]

. . .
My concern is not whether I rendered the mendicant naturally, my concern is whether I got my interpretation of her as I wanted.

You certainly made a photograph that draws the viewer's eye to linger and thus compels the viewer to think about interpretations.

Good Shot.

WW