Photographers, do you ever push the saturation a little more than you know you should, just because it feels good? It's a fine line before you go too far, but I love stretching the limits of color.
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I always was making tiny adjustments. Then I watched a few photographers whose work I like, and they would push settings to +30 where I would do +5; and the results looked great. I’m much more adventurous with all the settings now. There’s an edge you can push to without losing too much details.
If anything I reduce saturation and (if in Lightroom) also turn down the Clarity slider. Too many photographs online are based on over-cooked default settings, imo, and these can drain the subtlety from an image.
I’m color blind, I have no idea what my “treatments” look like to other folk. I once had a friend ask “why did that squirrel have purple fur?”. Maybe I should stick to black and white🙂
Seems to straight out of the Pete Lik book of how to saturate to the enth degree, also seem to be the in criteria for some competition judges, same as over doingthe HDR filter, let's make everything crunchy, not for me thanks very much, natural is best,
After one of my PS upgrades I went a little overboard with it. A buddy of mine finally looked at the work, then at me and said “are you through now?” It’s a balance that everyone must find.
Sometimes yes. But only when the colors exist in the original image. For instance, I shoot a lot of portraits, so the fall colors and sunset images, I do tend to push the saturation a bit. 😏
My own profile photo of me and my husband when we were pregnant with our second. The forest was pretty green still for that time of year, but I did up the saturation on the greens to really make them pop!
I go for the fine line. There are two fine lines for me: Either what is as close as possible to reality, either because I'm still there or the reality in my memory...1/2
...2/2 Or what serves the picture aesthetically, or emotionally to convey the story or mood. This could even mean desaturate a bit, but If I saturate I try to aim for that fine line and not oversaturate. =Finito=
That makes sense. When I make pictures, I almost always go for the vibe I have in mind with the image I see before me. It's not so much about recreating the reality I experienced as it is about making something new. Usually, I can see the picture in my mind. If I can realize that, I'm happy.
I'm no way a photographer. But when taking photos in nature I sometimes do. Because what I see is not displayed on the screen. It does feel therapeutic.
Guilty as charged. Usually wind up walking it back a bit after letting things percolate for a while…new day, new set of eyes sort of thing. But not always😁
That used to be a feature of early in camera jpg's, the early "digital aesthetic." The popularity of film simulations has flattened out color dynamics. But the early digital aesthetic is having a bit of a vintage moment as these old devices are having a vintage moment as well.
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That’s why it’s art, not a depiction of reality.