Saturday, April 28, 2012

The Weekly Photo (Week 18)

Light Touch - Heavy Touch

This week you get to vote: How much “enhancing” is too much?

In digital photography it seems to have become mandatory to run each photo through “post-processing”. There are small adjustments of exposure, cropping to get that perfect composition, and a myriad of other refinements and effects.  For many the objective is to present a masterpiece photograph, for others the goal is an image that is merely based on the photo, “based on a theme …”.

Each week I present a “work”, a piece of “derivate art”, over in Silver Canvas. Those are meant to be just playful “café art”. In Gallery Ludwig, on the other hand, I present photographs – not works of art, just, hopefully, enjoyable images.

So the question becomes, were is the line? When is a photo no longer a photo. A while back I explained that I have an arbitrary demarcation, and when one of my images crosses that line, I place a signature on the picture. Photographs, realistic images, even when enhanced, don’t get a signature.

So today three images – all from the same exposure. All with post processing. Photos, or “derivative art”? You be the judge. Your comments are invited.

Blackberry Blossoms

Blackberry Blossoms

Blackberry Blossoms

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© 2011 Ludwig Keck

Monday, April 16, 2012

Combining Photos

There are many ways to combine photos. Here are two:

Inset a photo in another  - From the other corner of Café Ludwig.

How do I superimpose a photo on another one?  - From Ask Ludwig.

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© 2011 Ludwig Keck

Monday, April 9, 2012

The Weekly Photo (Week 15)

Rivalry

Ah, spring! Not only the trees and flowers are blooming, so is … rivalry!

Rivalry

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© 2011 Ludwig Keck

Sunday, April 1, 2012

The Weekly Photo (week 14)

Dogwood Blossoms

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Spring is all too short. So enjoy the dogwoods in bloom. In reality as I post this the blossoms have already largely faded away. So take a look at a couple of my other interpretations of dogwood blossoms – as posted in my other blogs:

 

Dogwood Blossom

Dogwood Blossoms

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© 2011 Ludwig Keck