There seems to be a trend of overprocessing & photoshopping photos to death these days. Pick up a major sports magazine and you'll see this very same overprocessed, desaturated look in their portraiture.
So naturally i wanted to see exactly how easy it was to do it. So easy it made me die inside a little as a photographer.
Naturally i pulled out my lensbaby and decided that if i was going to go for every damm trendy cliche this week, I'm going for the gusto.
For full disclosure, i labeled these as illustrations and they have been photoshopped to death. Mainly desaturating & high-pass filters. I normally shoot everything contrasty as it is.
It should be 250/5.6 ISO 100 with a sb-800 softbox camera right w/CTO gel & a CTB SB-80 as a hair/rim light.
Now i gotta ask, is this too much?
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It is art David -- all in the eye of the beholder.
I use Lightroom for most of my post production these days. A lot of these actions and filters that people are using nowadays is about like soft focusing and heavy vignettes of days past. People are going to look back and laugh at how silly it looks.
Since commercial/editorial work is a somewhat "here today- gone tomorrow" I would speculate that it would be a bit more acceptable to veer towards trends in post. However, I still feel that a well taken image in camera is better than a gimmick in post.
There's that fine line you always have to walk that keeps the viewer in check - Keeping the subject of the image as the focus, rather than the processing.
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