Moon and (not) stars
Moon and (not) stars
WPP 2015 - Week 12 - Moon / Sun
Weekly Photo Project 2015 curated by Alen Ianni , Bernhard Rembold , Cliff Loresco , Francesco Scaglioni , Heather D , Ken Fowkes , Navin Upendran , Robyn King and T.E. Smith
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Something a little different for me. With perfectly clear skies, and a very thin sliver of a moon, it was tough coming up with an image that was not boring.
Playing around with one of my on-tablet photo editing suites, I ran the edge-detection algorithm over the image - and got this. The 'stars' are actually faintly hot pixels - which is why you can see some of them in the arms of the moon - that were detected as 'edges'.
It was a lot of fun to see a photo turn into a cartoon, without actually trying to do so!
There are some who would argue that this is no longer a photograph. Myself, I don't know where I would draw the line. You would not have this image if you did not start with a camera.
ReplyDeleteIn one of my photo magazines many years ago, a photographer in charge of a TV shoot got in an argument with a TV cameraman. "That will ruin my image quality," argued the cameraman.
The photographer replied, "I'm not interested in image quality, I'm interested in image!"
The client went with the photographer's version.
Interesting story, Tom Cooper. And it is an interesting question.
ReplyDeleteThis was a conflict that I had to confront in myself some years ago. Prior to that, I was strongly anti-post processing - beyond the occasional corrective crop.
So, when does post-processing go beyond photography? What about complex photographic collages? Airbrushing? Do any of these stop a photograph being a photograph?
After several months of internal debate and listening to similar arguments by various critics and other photographers, I decided that it stops being a photograph when the photographer says it is no longer a photograph.
Now I cheerfully tweak colours, exposures, add blur filters, and all the rest - until the image looks right to me. Remarkably, this photo is the result of just two edits - the crop, and the edge-detection.
And, if you are asking yourself questions about the photo, then my job is done. I was trying for 'not boring'!
Very creative!
ReplyDeleteGreat fun and a grand idea for the theme :)
ReplyDeleteWhat fun!
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