Photography

shidoshi: That lily pad one has a lot of potential. Maybe move the lily pads into a pattern or something...

Here's some photos taken while freediving on the Big Island last week. Excuse the spotty quality - they were all shot with a cheapo disposable camera and many of them came out kind of junk. My favourite 3 are attached, and you can see the whole story at the following link if you want:

http://www.aloha.net/~the_matt/hawaiipics/uw/

I quite like the second one -- it would make for an excellent large-scale painting.

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Originally Posted by Lobo

Leaning Barn + Radial Blur = Effective Effect.

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im suprised they let you photoshop pictures.

And why is that?

ive always come across photograpers, photography teachers and anybody that has to do with photography to regard altering your work in any way digitally, to be the BANE of the subject. i could care less either way because there is usually a way to recreate a filter through non-photoshop means, but man were my photo professors PS Nazis.

Not necessarily. Many professional underwater photographers rely heavily on Photoshop to restore colour balance to their photos. If you're taking pictures any deeper than 10-15 feet or so below the surface, much of the colour is lost and the whole picture looks blue. Editing the photo after the fact is a lot easier and more versatile than playing with filters, especially if you want to take photos at different depths on the same dive. Usually you can't change filters without taking the whole camera apart, which isn't something you can do under water. For this reason, digital cameras are now very popular among UW photographers.

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Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne

ive always come across photograpers, photography teachers and anybody that has to do with photography to regard altering your work in any way digitally, to be the BANE of the subject. i could care less either way because there is usually a way to recreate a filter through non-photoshop means, but man were my photo professors PS Nazis.

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Hmm, most of my teachers haven't been purists. Actually, most of them were first and foremost art teachers, who also taught photography. They encouraged chopping up photos to make collages, painting over them, hand tinting, digital effects, anything really that could enhance the photo.

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Originally Posted by Matt

Not necessarily. Many professional underwater photographers rely heavily on Photoshop to restore colour balance to their photos. If you're taking pictures any deeper than 10-15 feet or so below the surface, much of the colour is lost and the whole picture looks blue. Editing the photo after the fact is a lot easier and more versatile than playing with filters, especially if you want to take photos at different depths on the same dive. Usually you can't change filters without taking the whole camera apart, which isn't something you can do under water. For this reason, digital cameras are now very popular among UW photographers.

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i understand this. did you miss the part where i said every teacher "I" had fealt that way ;)

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Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne

did you miss the part where i said every teacher "I" had fealt that way ;)

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Nope. I wasn't trying to argue with you - just mentioning that in that field Photoshop is perfectly respectable.