What effect is in vogue?

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For a while we were used to seeing mono pics with a coloured detail empahsised.

Imagine a London scene in B&W with a red bus.

(There was probably a posh name for it)

This effect seems to have died a death nowadays. Am I right?

Is there another effect that is popular these days.

If not, it's about time TP members put their thinking hats on.:)
 
rizla01 said:
For a while we were used to seeing mono pics with a coloured detail empahsised.

Imagine a London scene in B&W with a red bus.

(There was probably a posh name for it)

This effect seems to have died a death nowadays. Am I right?
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I've seen it called the Pleasantville Effect and the Colour Pop. It's still used occasionally.

rizla01 said:
Is there another effect that is popular these days?
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HDR; High Contrast Low Saturation. Both these seem to be done to death.

Chris
 
Ah yes.

HDR.


Seems to me that we are trying to mimic what games authors produce as the closest that they can get to real life.

Turning real life shots into cartoons is poor art in my opinion.

Its like still life animatronics, isn't it?
 
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rizla01 said:
Ah yes.

HDR.


Seems to me that we are trying to mimic what games authors produce as the closest that they can get to real life.

Turning real life shots into cartoons is poor art in my opinion.

Its like still life animatronics, isn't it?
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Each to their own, although HDR isn't my thing, but a lot of people get pleasure from it.

The majority of effects we see these days have, in some way or another, been done before, but that's not to say they can't be used again or in conjunction with something else.

A good photograph is a good photograph, full-stop. But a good photograph can be made into something even more standout through canny processing, cropping and general presentation. Don't judge too quickly those that choose a different path to your own....
 
It's official term I believe is "colour accent", and really I wouldn't say they were techniques dying of death it's just a photo looks good with it sometimes and so people think to get great photos they have to be accented and it disgusts me. Same as black and white really, people think a photo looks crap but turn it into a black and white piece and it somehow becomes a masterpiece :S each to their own I suppose.
 
Its called selective colouring and was invented by the same idjut that decided black and white was to be called mono.
The one positive from this conostrophy is that "mono" :shake:, never looks looks as biblically naff as selective colouring..

:)
 
Focus stacking looks like fun ;) Bring back pseudo-solarisation! No, lets not. It'll probably be like most other 'fashions', cyclic by nature, though some things are best left in the 70's/80's lol.
Blown-white backgrounds seem to be slowly dying, just as I was nearly getting the hang of them. Typical.
As for right now in vogue? Not really to sure TBH. Depends on what some half-witted semi-demi-celeb can achieve with two buttons and deems cool after 30mins with documentary reality crew :) :)
 
rizla01 said:
HDR.

Seems to me that we are trying to mimic what games authors produce as the closest that they can get to real life.

Turning real life shots into cartoons is poor art in my opinion.
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Depends on how HDR is used. That's like saying the paint is that horrible stuff that kids used to graffiti on walls, while forgetting that it's also been used for many masterpieces.

HDR certainly can be used for almost-cartoon effects, but equally it can allow you to capture the subtle details that would otherwise be lost. Remember that when your eyes look around a scene, the pupil constrantly adapts its "exposure" for each small area it is looking at - your camera can't do that without taking several pictures and merging them. So, used carefully, HDR just allows you to capture the breadth of detail that your eyes could naturally see if looking at the same scene. And personally i don't see anything wrong with that!

David
 
personally i like colour-popping in photos, i like looking at them and i like using the effect on occaission. there i said it!

i know it's not a popular choice amongst the more 'artistic' users on here, but what the hell i'm not here to please you.
i'm colourblind so perhaps having a black and white image and using only one colour to add interest is easier for me to take in than one with a vast array of colours, tones and shades.
i'm curious about other colourblind peoples opinions on this subject though
 
lexie said:
personally i like colour-popping in photos, i like looking at them and i like using the effect on occaission. there i said it!

i know it's not a popular choice amongst the more 'artistic' users on here, but what the hell i'm not here to please you.
i'm colourblind so perhaps having a black and white image and using only one colour to add interest is easier for me to take in than one with a vast array of colours, tones and shades.
i'm curious about other colourblind peoples opinions on this subject though
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Thats an interesting take on it.

I can enjoy a clever use of this technique but was really fishing for peeps opinions of this and other ideas.

There seems to be a huge amount of post photography done nowadays.

I understood that if you are colour blind that you confuse Greens with Reds. (Or something like that) is the the case or does it affect everyone differently, depending on severity?
 
scuby said:
Remember that when your eyes look around a scene, the pupil constrantly adapts its "exposure" for each small area it is looking at - your camera can't do that without taking several pictures and merging them. So, used carefully, HDR just allows you to capture the breadth of detail that your eyes could naturally see if looking at the same scene. And personally i don't see anything wrong with that!

David
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While I'm not going to argue the merits of for or against HDR as everyone to there thing.

I will say that getting all the detail by HDR is nothing like what you see with your eyes, simply because we view in three dimensions and a HDR image is two dimensional and is probarbly why they always look unreal to some people as you lose the feeling of depth when the tones are evened out.

So real looking no, a effect yes. and if done slightly then it could probarbly have been done from a single exposure, so there usually overdone just for the effect, no wrong or right as like most effects you either like the effect or you do not.:)
 
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rizla01 said:
Thats an interesting take on it.

I can enjoy a clever use of this technique but was really fishing for peeps opinions of this and other ideas.

There seems to be a huge amount of post photography done nowadays.

I understood that if you are colour blind that you confuse Greens with Reds. (Or something like that) is the the case or does it affect everyone differently, depending on severity?
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it varies from person to person, my brother and me are both colourblind (although his twin brother is not!) and we have problems with different colours.

personally, i have problems with yellow/green, red/green, red/brown, blue/purple, purple/pink. but that's not to say that every shade of each colour is a problem, i do find it hard to pick a ripe banana though :lol:

we've been known to re-spot the brown when playing snooker if it ends up at the opposite end of the table to avoid confusion lol, it might seem strange to others but it's been 'normal' to me all my life.
 
lexie said:
it varies from person to person, my brother and me are both colourblind (although his twin brother is not!) and we have problems with different colours.

personally, i have problems with yellow/green, red/green, red/brown, blue/purple, purple/pink. but that's not to say that every shade of each colour is a problem, i do find it hard to pick a ripe banana though :lol:

we've been known to re-spot the brown when playing snooker if it ends up at the opposite end of the table to avoid confusion lol, it might seem strange to others but it's been 'normal' to me all my life.
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You've said the magic word.

SNOOKER.

You must be a good bloke, then.:thumbs:

So glad that your problem hasn't totally spoiled your game.

That would be a REAL tragedy.
 
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Colour splash is how I've always know it, It can be useful but it's not something I'd do on every shot or for the sake of it.

Likewise HDR - True HDR made by merging images of differente exposures I do a lot as it helps with tricky lighting which I invariably find myself in. The fake stuff from one image with the local contrast cranked up to the max and way too much saturation introduced looks awful, although a little of it can be useful to bring out detail in a scene.
 
What program do you use for compiling HDR?

Are there any good FREE offerings for HDR that can be experimented with?
 
rizla01 said:
You've said the magic word.

SNOOKER.

You must be a good bloke, then.:thumbs:

So glad that your problem hasn't totally spoiled your game.

That would be a REAL tragedy.
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my snooker is a lot like my photography, spoiled by a lack of talent rather than being colourblind :lol:
 
Daryl said:
...all the above are great if it makes the image and sells or..... Makes the tog happy.

This new fad that has been popular in Japan for the last 5 years is heading hear. All for pets using a fish eye lens shot at certain angles.

http://www.thedog-clubs.com/thedog.html
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That one has been here for years - although oddly enough while people like it no-one really wants to see their own dog in that manner.

Plus it doesn't really work on any doges over about 3 months old.
 
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