Pictures

[khaleesi]

So I photo shopped 2 images of my babies so that it looked as if they were sat face to face on the same pebble about to kiss, which actually came out looking quite good, as if it were one image. I like to play about with my pictures, I keep the original and edit a second copy of the same picture. I found a new editor called befunky that I use for the effects they have to offer and the text but last night while looking at some chrome apps I found glitterboo and was able to further edit the image to cover up any potential seams and add the effect (see profile pic) Iv'e had it said that by messing about with pictures (MY pictures) I am destroying beautiful images but that's my choice I am the photographer, they are my animals, and above all it's my choice! Each to their own as they say

My question is what do you think? Do you edit images to give them a new look? Is it right or is it wrong in your opinion?

I would love to see some of the images you've made, unless I'm the only fruit loop that would think to edit a great pic of a beautiful lizard haha and that is highly possible

 

[Mungi's Buddha]

@khaleesi....the phrase for what you are describing is called "taking artistic license" and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it at all. Most people take artistic license when capturing an image, even if they think they are being pure and raw, by the simple act of focusing the lens and capturing only a small portion of the entire scene thereby cropping out and molding so to speak to save what they want to express or keep. That process alone deletes details and changes the total image that they are actually seeing with their eyes.
Like-wise taking an image and running it thru filters and manipulating it with editing programs is just a choice that a photographer makes to further interpret and express what they want or need to express.
No two people see things in exactly the same way even when they are looking at the same thing under the same conditions. They may have extremely close perceptions to each other but there are always variables that make each individuals processing of what they are seeing unique and all their own. That is a fact that has been proven scientifically but I wont go into a long drawn out dissertation here about all of the factors known to make each persons perception of reality uniquely their own forthat would take days perhaps years to fully explain..lol
The point is that when you take a photo for instance you see things your way, capture the "moment"as you wish to capture it and the interpret that moment and express it to others from your point of view to hopefully let others share what you are seeing, feeling, hearing, touching, etc in that moment.
However you choose to share and express your image is an absolutely wonder way and if that means altering the picture, changing colours and hues and lighting and so forth to express then it is all good and whether anyone else likes or "gets" or appreciates your expression is truly a moot point and matters not.
I grew up in Louisiana with my Grandmother who was an amazing oil painter and her portrayals of the swamps that surrounded us and the people around the area have been much sought after over the years although see would tell you that she only painted for herself because she wanted to remember what she saw.
I started with watercolour when I was quite young and have been a watercoulor artist for the majority of my life. I choose to paint in a expressionistic and impressionistic style most of the time because it is what pleases me and what captures "the scene" best for me. I was schooled and both know and can perform quite well many types of painting techniques from abstract to ultra-realism..I can for instance paint or draw and make it look exactly like a photograph if I choose but I dont because when I am painting I am attempting to capture much more than just the image I see but more the entire experience that image sparked. That experience is mine alone, see?
Like-wise I had a friend of mine that was an extremely amazing portrait painter, perhaps the best I have ever known. I was with him one time when he presented a portrait he had done for a client and when she first laid eyes on the painting she made comment that " This doesn't look like me at all!" to which he replied with a smile "I believe it does look exactly like you..Take the painting how for awhile and come back in a month and if you still are unhappy with it you dont owe me a penny. Deal?"
Not only did the client return before the month was out and paid him happily in full but she became one of his greatest fans and greatest supporter and brought him a great many other clients.
My point is here...you do with your photos whatever makes you happy and whatever puts a smile on your face and not be worried about what anyone else thinks about what you capture or create. Some will like immediately and some will come to like in time and some will never like at all but the only one that truly has to like is you...its your vision...your creation and interpretation.
Enjoy!

 

[khaleesi]

You expressed things that I thought but could not put in to words! I don't pick up a paint brush or a pencil and sit down to create an image not because I can't but because of the way I perceive my own art from my own hands, I will never be a fantastic artist in that sense but with a camera in my hand and a computer in front of me I've surprised even my self with some of the out comes from, what I say, messing about on different programs and tweeking things I see as imperfect. My thought behind my profile picture was, if I titled it, The miracle of life, because I still don't understand how these teeny tiny little angels are so small but mean so much to me in such a little time, sparkling away from their little pedestals high up in the clouds of my heart. I truly could not see life without them now

 

[Mungi's Buddha]

And it is a wonderful picture that you created, indeed!
and btw...that camera and that computer and the editing softwares are no different than the brush and paints or the stone and chisel or what ever else may be chosen to express...they are all mediums, no one greater than the other...simply vehicles to express what your mind perceives making whichever choice absolutely the right choice. I use a whole host of mediums and am constantly experimenting with news ones to find which work best to convey the message I want to convey in the moment. Expression and the need of it and for it is after-all one of the most basic concepts of being alive,one we are born with which makes expression connected on a soul level, the deepest type of connection possible
Have a wonderful day and keep that shutter clicking!!

 

[Germ]

Some I played with when I was doing JP's (Draconic Bloodlinez) website & signature.

 

[khaleesi]

@Germ WOW!! They are stunning pictures

 

[Germ]

Thanks, yours is sweet also .

 

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