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Photoshop hall of shame
March 12, 2008, 07:31:50 pm
There's a lot of it about. I'm looking for the worst offences, the cheesiest effects, harshest oversharpening, brightest oversaturation, you know the shit.
Stuff like this guy apparently traversing the lip of a singularity


R-man, what were you thinking!?


Gaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!


The above are from a quick look on UKC, I'm sure there's plenty more where they came from. Maybe if we can group all these abominations in one place it can act as a lesson for our children. And when are eyes have burnt out we can seal them in a depleted uranium cube and fire them into space

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#1 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 12, 2008, 07:39:34 pm
No, I got to stand up for r-man. Whilst that image itself may be be a little, erm, how would you say? Rough? Ugly? I like quite a few of his montagey/bitty pics and it is attempting something greater than simply whacking the saturation up or down or what have you.

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#2 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 12, 2008, 07:50:23 pm
I agree, R-man's is a different approach.  Good idea, well done.  At least it isn't trying to be fake.

Won't let me link the image but this is good.


EDIT:  That doesn't work either.  Just have a look at some on http://hebrideanstoneworks.com


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#3 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 12, 2008, 07:55:53 pm


EDIT:  That doesn't work either.  Just have a look at some on http://hebrideanstoneworks.com



That guy invented the genre.


What's all this jumping to r-man's defence? I never said nowt guv

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#4 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 12, 2008, 08:01:48 pm
Whilst that image itself may be be a little ... Ugly?

You calling me ugly?  :spank:  :lol:

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#5 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 12, 2008, 08:08:45 pm

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#6 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 08:18:13 am
Nice, the sky in that shot is cheeseball deluxe!

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#7 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 08:49:02 am


From the quality bouldering pics about a month back. Yikes

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#8 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 09:09:05 am
Was just going to post that. Other Olivier Lebreton crimes against taste..............





The worst thing is these were really good photos of a really good climber on really good problems. Ruined.

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#9 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 10:00:39 am
I appreciate your collective beef with 'unrealistic' shots, but you'd better get used to it. Of the above shots one looks to me like it could be a completely straight shot, and another is very close, perhaps just badly white balanced. Its a fact that out perception of what is 'realistic' in a photograph over the last twenty years has been determined by the characteristics of a couple of films. With digital and RAW processing in particular that is out the window and we're all going to have to get used to photography in a wider range of looks.

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#10 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 10:03:51 am
You are right JB.  There's also a fine line between optimising a shot in PhotoShop and going too far.  And then there's the silly stuff that looks crap.
I personally don't mind a bit of image manipulation, as long as it is done well.

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#11 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 10:25:35 am
I'm not talking about manipulation as such; its more the fact that just processing a RAW file involves subjective input. Before that ended when you chose the film.

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#12 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 11:21:05 am
 I'm talking about cheesefests like the three examples I gave.
 I did think the upper of jasper's examples looked possibly unshopped.
 I'm not having a pop at post processing per se. As the owner of a fairly cheap point and shoot I feel justified in tinkering with my own pics. It's the laughably unsubtle I'm looking for.

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#13 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 12:53:17 pm

 I did think the upper of jasper's examples looked possibly unshopped.


Yeah maybe he did write the name of the problem on his arm with a marker pen.  :)

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#14 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 01:15:08 pm
I did wonder about the bad tat. Good point well made

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#15 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 01:33:45 pm

R-man, what were you thinking!?


Just an experiment. Wasn't a photoshop effect though - I pasted the bits of photo onto a black background and drew the picture in between by hand (mouse). Probably would have looked better if I'd drawn it on paper then scanned it in I suppose.

Eee, the things you get up to when you can't climb for a year. Thank goodness I can climb again.

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On the subject of over the top photoshopping, indeed over the top anything, I'm all for it. So what if you balls it up and do something stupid? Creativity comes from experimentation. Photography, writing, art, music, whatever - I'm often more impressed by mistakes than the competent-but-safe.

Not that I'm saying nothing looks crap. Some things do. That's how the cookie crumbles.


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#16 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 01:45:04 pm
I think I've just been sick in my mouth

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#17 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 02:06:17 pm
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I'm talking about cheesefests like the three examples I gave.

The first shot you posted may well be a straight shot. If you've ever tried photographing in places like California or Oz during the midday sun the contrast is completely unmanageable. Composing so the background is entirely underexposed may not be clever but its not manipulation.

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#18 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 02:10:32 pm
Beg pardon r-man, I thought you'd just slapped a filter effect on and called it job done.
I'm all for getting experi-mental, if it produces something interesting. Infact here's one i've been messing around with earlier:

Original image



Fruits of tinkering

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#19 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 02:13:54 pm
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I'm talking about cheesefests like the three examples I gave.

The first shot you posted may well be a straight shot. If you've ever tried photographing in places like California or Oz during the midday sun the contrast is completely unmanageable. Composing so the background is entirely underexposed may not be clever but its not manipulation.
Get outta town! Fair enough but that's not Oz, it's a bum scraping traverse at Baslow. I really can't believe the ground which is only 2 inch under his ass is so dark that no detail whatsoever came out, even when I cranked up the brightness and contrast
« Last Edit: March 13, 2008, 02:35:23 pm by Bonjoy, Reason: scrapping/scraping spelling »

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#20 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 02:29:24 pm
That's at Baslow? In which case I'll get a plate. And a knife and fork.

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#21 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 03:34:05 pm
You don't hear them words that often

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#22 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 13, 2008, 08:42:19 pm
And without the need for a Houdini-style sign-here apology form... 8)

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#23 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 14, 2008, 05:09:49 pm
cry for help, i need some tips to avoid the hall of fame.

am trying to add a new sky to a climbing shot cause the actual sky on the pic is really grey, but the new sky just looks well false.

do i need to blur or shapen or something to kind of blend the sky with the foreground a bit more?

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#24 Re: Photoshop hall of shame
March 14, 2008, 06:40:57 pm

Post the images and the sky you're trying to use and somebody might be able to help :)

 

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