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That’s some pretty photoshop’ing. Very nice!
I like the smog in the background. Makes me feel right at home.
HDR, I believe.
In the Morning?
color is all screwed up
I want me a sail boat.
Here’s a close-up. Looks like a black line was added for contrast.
The black lines are an artifact of the heavy tone-mapping applied to the photo. As are the even more obvious halos around the two tallest structures.
The ‘shopping’ is terrible as shown by #7, damn that’s nasty
On first glance, it was obvious the original photo was shopped and I assumed shopped specifically for the effect achieved?
Its not a photo, not meant to be a photo: It is a pic. Different thing all together.
The image is metaphor, the artists recurring theme of modern balancing old, man made countered by the natural environment. A juxtaposition of techniques in this case compounds the effectiveness of the artists statement. HDR and line-filtering, balanced by flat photography. The image is of a harsh city facing outward towards the sea, and of wind powered boats approaching the land in the opposite direction.
All my photos are HDR but I do not tone-map them as much. This is extreme.
We don’t have smog here in Seattle, but we do have soupy, damp, sometimes rainy fog from around October through May.
@Rob Alter,
Nice photo’s! Well traveled too!
If any of you have been around this area, you know that tower, you’ll know the neighborhood is meh. My nephew would say “ghetto” for instance. The farmers market by the bay is nice though; just be careful NOT to walk more than a couple of blocks away from it or else you be in questionable land. 🙂
My first guess was HDR, but the enlarged view makes me think more that a standard P-shop filter, most likely the watercolor filter, was used.
What’s the deal with none of the sailboats using their headsails? They’re all furled, except the lead boat looks a lot like a J29, which is the kind of boat I sail on, which doesn’t use a furler headsail. In that case, the head stay is bare and no headsail is hoisted. Are boats not allowed to use their headsails in that location?
I’d love to see a higher res version of the original source photo so I can zoom in and confirm whether that really is a J29 or not.
Why does everyone of John’s photos start a Photoshop discussion? I don’t remember arguing about burning and dodging in the film days.
Nice photo John.
Seattle is such a beautiful city. I’ve seen the skyline from the ferry literally hundreds of times and sometimes it still awes me.
Greg Allan, Master of the Oblivious==you ask: “Why does everyone of John’s photos start a Photoshop discussion?” //// Ummmm, because they are photoshopped?
Rob Alter–yes, excellent photos all. What camera/lens?
If they are all HDR’d, why are you choosing to present so much underexposed areas? eg, building/tree shots in Thailand?
is it Photoshop or the iPhone “HDR”?
>> bobbo, fools agree on the most idiotic of positions said, on September 25th, 2010 at 10:57 am
>> Greg Allan, Master of the Oblivious==you ask: “Why does everyone of John’s photos start a Photoshop discussion?” //// Ummmm, because they are photoshopped?
But why do people care so much?
Most photos (even before digital) have been tweaked or fiddled with. Usually people don’t care except on this blog.
Greg–I don’t think people “care” in the emotional sense that term carries. Like me, I think most people are “interested” in the technique used.
Think the best of people.
It gives me hope. If those people are too lazy to hoist their jibs, I could sail faster than them.