It's All Part of the Process - 21/265

[martha36]

There have been a few threads lately about processing and when you cross the line between photograph and artistic image. So, it was on my mind when i took the camera out this morning. I didn't really like anything I got, so I got mad and took it out on the images in photoshop. And the thing is, I like the images I produced. But photograph? I don't know ...


This is my photo of the day.





Here is another shot, along with the two originals.

[jack russell]

it's art made out of photographs ..

[Hayward Taylor]

Hi Martha - it's part of the process and how YOU like it ... excellent post process here

[muralikrishna]

Part of the process or Art of the process ... Whatever it is .. good learning for me ... Thanks for sharing them

[SusanH1970]

Isn't it fun to play with images? I absolutely LOVE the second one - great job bringing the blues out!

[VegasMike]

I like what you did in post, especially with the first one. You may have thought the original images were not your best work or even to your liking. I believe the "line" between photography and artistic image is a line that you alone decide where to place. TFS.

Mike

[leonaashlee]

Photographs? Art? Beauty...yes

[Preacherman]

Two great capture whichever way you look at them. I like the original better than the PP in shot 1, but the PP over the original in shot 2. Great job Martha. PAUL

[fstopMike]

Excellent PP, and I don't care about the debate. Art is art and beauty is beauty and the process is the process. I'm liking the end result!

[Mpow]

I really like what you've done with both of these, but especially the first one.
The way I look at it, it really is just a more advanced way of doing what used to be done in the darkroom. I watched the video clip about Ansel Adams the other day, about what he did to enhane the original image that he had taken. Is anyone going to say that his final product wasn't a photograph? I doubt it. Why, because you have different tools at your disposal, should this be any different? Why does there need to be a line between photograph and artistic image and who draws the line? If that is the case, that there is a line, I wonder how many "photographs" we actually see . . .
Just my two cents . . .