When I firstly started photography, a friend of mine always liked to talk about Post-Modernism in photography. At that stage I knew almost nothing about art history, so I could not understand him at all. Only answered: huh-hah, huh-hah....
Now I think I am quite good at something calls Post-Photoshop-ism. What!? I wish I could throw him back with my own ‘big word’.
This means when I look at a scene, I can see the final photograph after the Photoshop manipulation. Of course, there still may be some lucky surprises in the process.
That was a scenes I found potential: good clouds on a blue sky, run-down bar with weed around, bar stools etc.
However, in the traditional photo-sense, they do not come together on the ‘print’.
With my Post-Photoshop-ism eyes, I knew I could take away the pipe and road sign which were at the dead centre of the picture. With CS5’s black & white sliders control, I could call out the green and toned down the orange plastic fence. The front ground was too plain, but with multi-layers control, I could age it with blur and marks.
Still, it is not a perfect setting. It’d better in an open field or desert. Hey..not bad at all when you realise the original.
Now I think I am quite good at something calls Post-Photoshop-ism. What!? I wish I could throw him back with my own ‘big word’.
This means when I look at a scene, I can see the final photograph after the Photoshop manipulation. Of course, there still may be some lucky surprises in the process.
That was a scenes I found potential: good clouds on a blue sky, run-down bar with weed around, bar stools etc.
However, in the traditional photo-sense, they do not come together on the ‘print’.
With my Post-Photoshop-ism eyes, I knew I could take away the pipe and road sign which were at the dead centre of the picture. With CS5’s black & white sliders control, I could call out the green and toned down the orange plastic fence. The front ground was too plain, but with multi-layers control, I could age it with blur and marks.
Still, it is not a perfect setting. It’d better in an open field or desert. Hey..not bad at all when you realise the original.
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