The Photography Board

FallinAgain

I thought I might find some interesting tips.  Instead, I have had my retinas burned by people's sigs who are offering advice on tweaking saturation and contrast.http://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/24634128.aspx

PDXPhotoGrl

Oh shiiiiiiit. I have some regulating to do.

wingedbride

I fear it since it is on the bump.I am asking for a dSLR for christmas. I will only ask on this board for advice.

wingedbride

It looks like they were married in a field of pee pee.

AngieP900

Yeah, the girl who got married on the sun shouldn't be offering advice on color saturation.

PDXPhotoGrl

VOMIT. I am going to bash heads.. [url]http://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/24640302/ShowThread.aspx#24640302[/url] .Please see the links caytibeth gives about "textured" backgrounds, particularly this one:. [url]http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com/2009/10/fix-it-friday-32-hands-on-photo-editing.html[/url] .

FallinAgain

Oh, PDX.  You are going to have fun there.

wingedbride

that picture honestly looks really good without editing. She is better to do nothing than to do that to it.

PDXPhotoGrl

It needs exposure and contrast work IMO, but that's really standard for straight out of camera dslr pictures. Nothing drastic.

FallinAgain

I think drastic is all these people know.  And some seem to claim to be professionals.  See the neon green pea baby in the selective coloring post.

wingedbride

pdx, i see you are a big fan of KatelynRae

PDXPhotoGrl

Yeeeeeeeah.I really want to tell her she's not allowed to agree with me with that picture in her siggy.

PDXPhotoGrl

I will cut a biiitch over selective coloring.

FallinAgain

Holds out wrist. I have a photo with my bouquet selectively colored and it is one of my favorites. Then again, I wear crocs to cook in, so call me tacky.

PDXPhotoGrl

Sorry Fallin. TOD of our friendship: 1:51 PST 10.22.2009

shanollee

One of my friends is an awesome photographer, and she used to travel with bands and do their photos etc.  I've noticed lately that she's gotten really heavy handed with her photoshop, especially with something that alters complexion and makes people look like freaky wax works.  It's so weird because she used to just adjust the coloring and some levels and make stuff look AWESOME, but now I find myself cringing at most of her photos.  Maybe being out of the whole touring-with-bands routine for several years and just doing photography as more of a hobby has done something to her brain.  Her photographic eye is intact because she gets great shots, she just "ruins" them later with all the photoshop nonsense

FallinAgain

That's ok.  I like the ribbon shot that girl posted, too.

jackpackage

I think drastic is all these people know. And some seem to claim to be professionals. See the neon green pea baby in the selective coloring post. I honestly thought it was one of those creepy dead baby signatures. 

BobLoblaw

And Calins appears to be a reg over there!

wingedbride

the picture of calins in her bio- her husband looks like he is trying to look like a vampire.

BobLoblaw

uglykrtistenworkbutimhomelaughing

noisy_penguin

The PW texture pictures that lady linked to for your example of good texture are pretty terrible. I'm terrible at photography and even I can tell.

PDXPhotoGrl

It makes me want to projectile vomit on her and her camera that she calls herself a professional photographer.

noisy_penguin

[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2486/3992044774_429c407e98_o.jpg[/img]What she did to the baby's eyes in the other photos (the non-textured ones) make it look kind of scary evil. Especially with the tongue sticking out.

wendyld

Which one makes you want to projectile vomit PDX?

PDXPhotoGrl

Specifically this one:. [img]http://lh3.ggpht.com/_e8uQ573dyZk/Ss8rTiPVioI/AAAAAAAAFCo/sFeMrtYTJjE/Week%2032%20-%20DanaS_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800[/img] .

AngieP900

That one looke like a poster Angela from the Office would have up.