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Cubic Spiral
Well well well. Beautiful stairs isn't it? Italian renaissance in a fancy building of downtown Milan. Beautiful by itself but I felt the need to edit it a bit.
Make it a bit darker, may be because of the actual ambient mood, may be because I haven't been Urban Exploring lately, I don't know. Whatever.
That give me a chance to discuss what I call "editing haters". You know, all the people who are going to yell "that's not the real picture ! you're cheating". Yes, I admit it. But you know what? We've reached a technologic point where reality can be perfectly transfered on a picture with a camera at the cutting edge of progress and I think that today, artistic photography is no longer about "transfering reality" but "translating reality". (We can make a comparison with the evolution of painting technics after the beginning of photography : painters don't try to reproduce things "perfectly" because they know they won't do it better than a camera.
Do you really think that people would say to Rembrandt "Hey buddy, you should stop your clair obscur, there is no way you can have those contrast naturally !" ?
When you're editing a picture to make it more moody, to make it more expressive or to try to transmit to the observer what you were feeling when you took it, you are not cheating, you are creating.
Be open guys, opening yourself is giving the unknown or the uncommon a chance.
Music to listen to : Dub Inc - Maché Bécif :www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v_e7xAvvDc
Cubic Spiral
Well well well. Beautiful stairs isn't it? Italian renaissance in a fancy building of downtown Milan. Beautiful by itself but I felt the need to edit it a bit.
Make it a bit darker, may be because of the actual ambient mood, may be because I haven't been Urban Exploring lately, I don't know. Whatever.
That give me a chance to discuss what I call "editing haters". You know, all the people who are going to yell "that's not the real picture ! you're cheating". Yes, I admit it. But you know what? We've reached a technologic point where reality can be perfectly transfered on a picture with a camera at the cutting edge of progress and I think that today, artistic photography is no longer about "transfering reality" but "translating reality". (We can make a comparison with the evolution of painting technics after the beginning of photography : painters don't try to reproduce things "perfectly" because they know they won't do it better than a camera.
Do you really think that people would say to Rembrandt "Hey buddy, you should stop your clair obscur, there is no way you can have those contrast naturally !" ?
When you're editing a picture to make it more moody, to make it more expressive or to try to transmit to the observer what you were feeling when you took it, you are not cheating, you are creating.
Be open guys, opening yourself is giving the unknown or the uncommon a chance.
Music to listen to : Dub Inc - Maché Bécif :www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v_e7xAvvDc