J.L. Briz
Autoretrato con amigos al anochecer/ Bluehour selfportrait with friends
I don't like much to heavily post-process my pictures. While on the subtle unavoidable verge between photography and digital art, I try to stay on the first side. I'm not a purist either; I claim no one should be: Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions (Susan Sontag, On Photograpy). Add the camera's engineers' taste and lenses features to that and RAW post-processing becomes just a photographer's claim over what inherently belongs to her/him. Which is a mere illusion, truth to tell, since once you press the shutter, the image is not longer yours. It's just another preposterous and unavailing intent to catch a grasp of reality in Plato's cave, while barely getting a phenomenological reflection of our own inner personal world... until we share it. Sharing overcomes our personal limitations. Sharing on the Internet is one of the most incredible sociological experiments we've been performing over the past few decades.
Postprocessing technical specs LR 5: auto profile lens correction. Heavily edited with Color Effex Pro 4 (only global adjustments, no U-points): Tonal Contrast (5/80/35/0) + Detail Extractor (25/75/0; shadows & highlights adjusted separately) + Reflector Effex (Gold source; 27/58/80/189) + manual adjustments on camera RGB levels and curves + Colorize (method 6, strength 13%). Define 2: manual noise measure and reduction.
Autoretrato con amigos al anochecer/ Bluehour selfportrait with friends
I don't like much to heavily post-process my pictures. While on the subtle unavoidable verge between photography and digital art, I try to stay on the first side. I'm not a purist either; I claim no one should be: Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions (Susan Sontag, On Photograpy). Add the camera's engineers' taste and lenses features to that and RAW post-processing becomes just a photographer's claim over what inherently belongs to her/him. Which is a mere illusion, truth to tell, since once you press the shutter, the image is not longer yours. It's just another preposterous and unavailing intent to catch a grasp of reality in Plato's cave, while barely getting a phenomenological reflection of our own inner personal world... until we share it. Sharing overcomes our personal limitations. Sharing on the Internet is one of the most incredible sociological experiments we've been performing over the past few decades.
Postprocessing technical specs LR 5: auto profile lens correction. Heavily edited with Color Effex Pro 4 (only global adjustments, no U-points): Tonal Contrast (5/80/35/0) + Detail Extractor (25/75/0; shadows & highlights adjusted separately) + Reflector Effex (Gold source; 27/58/80/189) + manual adjustments on camera RGB levels and curves + Colorize (method 6, strength 13%). Define 2: manual noise measure and reduction.