August 29, 2007
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A List grasshopper
A LIST GRASSH
PPERwould you believe me if i told you that these are unedited pictures? everyone edits the shit out of their pictures nowadays that no one knows if they are real or fake.
okay i cropped them..BUT thats it. no color correction at ALL. for truth i stopped all that 2 shoots ago...why..cause i want to be different. well real. I have to admit i was sucked in to the whole make your pictures look fake with all the blowouts etc. and i did it for like 2 years, Jessica Strickland has beautiful pictures, but they are all fake, the skin tones are totally manipulated, however they are done very well and if my kids were getting married i would so totally hire her she can shoot manually and i'm certain by looking at her pictures she manipulates her light and camera. The point is, i just want to see real photography come back! how many people shooting out there actually shoot on fully manual? i do always! there is a simple way to prove it. its called meta data. PS keeps a record of every single time you edit a photo it also shows at what F-stop and what shutter speed the pic was taken at along with whether or not the flash fired, what lens you used and what camera, what white balance and what iso speed/ asa for real photographers. i have been reading a post on Gary Fong's Website about a bride looking for a photographer. i saw the websites of the ones she liked. hmmm anyway it really has made me think about the pretenders as we call them out there. what has been great for the camera industry has really hurt the photography industry. just as the pictures below illustrate, they are technically so awesome that you DONT know if they are edited. They arent, as a matter or fact, the slideshow i posted the other day with elizabeth and michael is unedited as well, except for the ones in B&W, sepia or the B&W with color. So tell the truth do YOU know to operate a camera? Could you pull off a whole session without faking it?
This photo was taken at: 1/200s at f/5.6, ISO 100 focal length 102.0mm no flash, spot metering mode, white balance...ahhh the manipulation, i choose cloudy even though it was sunny, why, well i wanted my background to be black! light manipulation do you know how to? i also manipulate the whitebalnce by going +3 and adding a +2 to contrast and +2 to saturation and hard on my sharpness (camera settings)
The settings are the same
Changed my settings and got this. 1/400s at f/5.6 ISO 100 spot metering, white balance was on sunny, no flash see the difference?
By the way there is quite the controversy at my house as to whether this is in fact a grasshopper...Is it?
Comments (5)
Great colors, and a cool little model to boot.
Okay I must confess something here. I own an Nikon N55, nothing all that powerful, but I love it. The autofocus on my lens has broken, so it has sat and collected dust. Instead of learning how to use my manual, and what all the technical references mean, I bought my lil' digital, which I am now growing quite bored with. I have been saying for some time now, I am gonna have to learn how to operate my Nikon properly. So now especially, I am feeling like such a lazy stooge. I have these hysterically photogenic kids that I love to take pictures of, and wouldn't it be great if the quality of the pictures matched the quality of the subject?! LOL! I LOVE the convience of the digital medium, however my Nikon is a 35 mm, slr. Trying to convince my hubby to splurge on a digital slr right now just isn't going to happen. So not maybe it is time!
RYC, the hydrangea theme is available through Xanga themes, just to give credit where credit is due...
I just hope you got a model release from that Grasshopper for using his image?
I have always shot in the "M" Mode since I was 17 in high school so I could see things that are real, plus way back then in the 70's it was all film too.
Great post.
Randy
Cool photos, I love the first one!
Wow, the background went black just because you changed the white balance? Trippy!
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