[ianv]

Not sure climbing during a thermonuclear strike is a good idea

[Stubbs]

This one ticks most boxes!

http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=233738

[tomtom]

Oof!

http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=233738

[nai]

snap!

stop procrastinating, Tom and get on with your presentation.

[cheque]

HDR on every photo in this article. 

[Wood FT]

Pretty grim but the last one on the portaledge is really quite nice

[Oldmanmatt]

Right...

Um...

I get the desire for "true", well composed shots and the Artists eye.

But surely the digitally enhance compositions, bordering on abstract, have merit as art, in their own right?

The camera is now ubiquitous and virtually unlimited in number of shots. I still remember jealously guarding rolls of 35mm (36 exp) on expeditions of several months duration, weighing up the value of each shot against the possibility of using/wasting all 200/250 shots I had for the whole trip (not many branches of Jessops in the Antarctic for instance).

Now, like most people, I find that with a reasonable camera and enough photos, I can usually get at least one "great" shot on even the shortest trip. So, I will spend time playing with the images, to get an effect that pleases me. That is pretty much the definition of art, to me at least. If you share that, you will find plenty of supporters and detractors for that "art".

Composition is always important, regardless of the medium. But is realism?

[cowboyhat]

Right...

Composition is always important, regardless of the medium. But is realism?

"Its real, but is it interesting?"

It doesn't have to be real to be good. Use of Photoshop doesn't mean it will be shit.

This is the hall of shame.

[Clart]

I know it's not photoshop but there needs to be some special place in hell for this training vid:

[Nibile]

It's really terrible. I don't get the alien thing at all... If it's meant to be a reference to Desgrange being some kind of training alien...  back around you skinny and take that elastic band off!

[tomtom]

Well it's different...

[andyd]

Hmm. It's a bit confused. Lots of boring core exercises and some robots. It's technically amazing compared to my many masterpieces but strangely...rubbish?

[DaveyDave]

Finally, some climbing media I can properly relate to.

[tomtom]

Felt like a CGI college project output a bit there is a trend to release short videos with Death Stars/milleniun Falcons, etc... in incongruous day to day situations... its along that line a bit...

Anyway - why not?

[Fiend]

http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=246924

[SA Chris]

Aaargh, it hurts. Shame, looks like it could be quite a cool pic. Amazing having sunlight from two different directions.

[Nibile]

My eyes!
That's how climbing on Mars would be. Shit.

[rich d]

My eyes!
That's how climbing on Mars would be. Shit.

not sure about that Nibs, much much lower gravity on Mars.

[Fiend]

Low gravity makes you WEAK!

[Nibile]

And that's all.
 

[JackAus]

[a dense loner]

Only just seen the romain vid, I'm gonna have to watch some redtube now to redress the balance. I know they were trying but sometimes trying is too much

[petejh]

His form was quite shoddy on a couple of those exercises I thought, understandable with the distractions I suppose.

Not sure climbing during a thermonuclear strike is a good idea

When I was playing with ideas for the front cover of the NW lime guidebook I quite liked the idea of going just with a psychedelic negative image of the little orme at sunset, a bit like the thermonuclear image above. I had it on the page with the cover title etc. For a day or two I thought it said something profound. Glad I didn't. It would have said I was a tool.

[slackline]

Indian Creek? 

[Sloper]

That doesn't look photshopped to me.