FGR: Non-SOOC
I'll be honest. I sometimes wonder if the sooc nonsense I often hear is the elitist spew of digital photographers who have never placed a negative on an enlarger, chosen the type of paper they will expose in a darkroom, or screwed up a roll of film. Straight out of the camera in the film world inevitably means ruined film. Something must be done to the film, and that something is processing. The processing is a variable, not an absolute. The art of photography has always been in the darkroom as much as in the camera.
The group being invaded by FGR today is SOOC. I uploaded an image, STR_8531 (seen below) to flickr that meets the spirit of the group. The only thing I did to the image was change the name. This is not that image.
Astute Nikon users will note that I left the camera in the photograph turned off to prove this is not a photograph taken in a mirror and then reversed. However, the image was rotated ninety degrees. Then I straightened it .02 degrees. I cropped the image to an 8X10 format. I removed a dust spot on the background. I heightened the contrast slightly on the eyes, and on the lens. I decreased the specularity on the camera's Nikon logo. I might bump the overall contrast up a smidgen in the future.
I think this makes a better image, and to me, that is the final determinant. I will not submit this image to SOOC. It violates the group's rules. The original, seen below, is not what I would like it to be unless it is altered. I guess I suck at straight out of the camera photography. But, then, my artistic education was that of a painter/printmaker. I am uneducated in photographic theory. This image was inspired by SOOC, so maybe it will meet the criteria for FGR.
Flickr Group Roulette: SOOC (Straight Out of the Camera)
Nikkor 50mm ƒ1.8
Strobist: AlienBee 800 with HOBD-W camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.
FGR: Non-SOOC
I'll be honest. I sometimes wonder if the sooc nonsense I often hear is the elitist spew of digital photographers who have never placed a negative on an enlarger, chosen the type of paper they will expose in a darkroom, or screwed up a roll of film. Straight out of the camera in the film world inevitably means ruined film. Something must be done to the film, and that something is processing. The processing is a variable, not an absolute. The art of photography has always been in the darkroom as much as in the camera.
The group being invaded by FGR today is SOOC. I uploaded an image, STR_8531 (seen below) to flickr that meets the spirit of the group. The only thing I did to the image was change the name. This is not that image.
Astute Nikon users will note that I left the camera in the photograph turned off to prove this is not a photograph taken in a mirror and then reversed. However, the image was rotated ninety degrees. Then I straightened it .02 degrees. I cropped the image to an 8X10 format. I removed a dust spot on the background. I heightened the contrast slightly on the eyes, and on the lens. I decreased the specularity on the camera's Nikon logo. I might bump the overall contrast up a smidgen in the future.
I think this makes a better image, and to me, that is the final determinant. I will not submit this image to SOOC. It violates the group's rules. The original, seen below, is not what I would like it to be unless it is altered. I guess I suck at straight out of the camera photography. But, then, my artistic education was that of a painter/printmaker. I am uneducated in photographic theory. This image was inspired by SOOC, so maybe it will meet the criteria for FGR.
Flickr Group Roulette: SOOC (Straight Out of the Camera)
Nikkor 50mm ƒ1.8
Strobist: AlienBee 800 with HOBD-W camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.