Monday, August 28, 2006

To Photoshop or not



Canon 20D with 28-300L IS - 1/125s f/5.6 ISO400 at 70mm.

What do you think? Photoshop or no Photoshop?


5 Comments:

Blogger Warren T. said...

hi Tom,

It depends on what you're trying to do. Between the two pictures, I like the top one better. I find it more interesting, and it focuses on the clump of fruits in the middle. I think you need to bump up the saturation more in the middle to make it stand out just a little more than it is now. Also, did you intend to leave the little patch of blue there at the top of the image? It that's not important to your picture, perhaps you should desaturate that little patch too to make it more consistent.

Which one do you prefer?

--Warren

Tuesday, August 29, 2006 at 8:37:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Warren T. said...

After studying it further, I find that the b&w/desaturated look of the fruit on the edge of the photoshopped picture look unnatural, like maybe they're rotten :) So maybe making it more obviously b&w may clue the viewer in that this is a photo trick, and not a documentary picture. I guess the nature of the subject, IMO, may not lend itself to this treatment.

--Warren

Tuesday, August 29, 2006 at 8:40:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Eric said...

Tom, I like the bottom photo. I am assuming that's the photo you modified on Photoshop.

Eric

Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 11:38:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Warren T. said...

So, Tom, which version do you like?

--Warren

Friday, September 1, 2006 at 9:48:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Warren T. said...

After having a chance to view these two pictures for an extended time, I would have to say that I now like the bottom one more. I think it's worth a try to use blur instead of desaturating. Or try cropping closer to eliminate the extraneous stuff.

--Warren

Friday, September 1, 2006 at 11:36:00 AM PDT  

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