What’s Your Preference?

teepee12 · #1 (**permalink**) 09-21-2011, 04:34 PM

I'm actually beginning to hate looking at most of the photos I see.

Okay, here is one old lady's opinion.

I live on planet Earth. I like sunsets and sunrises the way God made them. Adobe is NOT God, at least not MY God. I like softness and I like subtlety. I love mist on the water and the beauty of a soft landscape. I don't like navy blue skies and have never seen one in nature. I don't want pictures to "pop." I don't need it to pop. I need it to be well-composed and evocative.

It's like listening to music at so high a volume that everything is distorted and over-modulated.

Most of the pictures I see look like someone's bad acid trip and make me feel like I should be wearing sunglasses before viewing. They are screaming, blatant, and wildly over-saturated.

I know that trends in photography come and go as they do in all of the arts and this trend will pass away eventually. Sooner would be, in my opinion, better than later.

I get a migraine looking at most pictures that people publish, especially HDR. That really isn't a good thing. But I'm old, after all, and apparently if I like it, no one else does.

prince · #2 (**permalink**) 09-21-2011, 04:44 PM

I somewhat agree to what you feel. Especially, HDR is most of the times over used. Would love to see some of the photos that you like even though you have given a good visual in words..

dlambert · #3 (**permalink**) 09-21-2011, 04:48 PM

Come join the Wednesday Rant. Sounds like a pretty similar argument.

#4 (**permalink**) 09-21-2011, 04:53 PM

Might want to add "Crotchity" to the 'old lady' bit.

teepee12 · #5 (**permalink**) 09-21-2011, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by maxharvard

Might want to add "Crotchity" to the 'old lady' bit.

Crotchety it is then. Whatever floats your boat.

Rentham · #6 (**permalink**) 09-21-2011, 05:02 PM

teepee12 · #7 (**permalink**) 09-21-2011, 05:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by prince

I somewhat agree to what you feel. Especially, HDR is most of the times over used. Would love to see some of the photos that you like even though you have given a good visual in words..

By Jakethepig (??? but sic!) in the pictures section of this forum is lovely, as an example (that isn't my own work). I don't know how much or how little post processing he did, but it came out looking like a real sunset over a real place in THIS world.

So much posted material is HDR and/or just over-processed that it is actually difficult to find examples.