Photography is the art of perception, what you perceive can be created and presented in photographs. Though photoshop made image manipulation easy, many complicated image manipulation tactics can be done without photoshop. One of the most important among these are the use of foreground and objects to manipulate the image.
Let us take the example of the image I have shot in an abandoned graveyard. I have used a filter, however I have not used photoshop to create the image and the image is 100% real. Now I would be amused to know some explanation for the "divine light" that radiates from the heart of the statue. However I have to answer what I started. It is nothing but a thin piece of cotton which is placed at a range where it is out of focus while the subject (statue) remains in focus. So the thin cotton layer remaining out of focus creates an effect that it seems to appear like a sours of light. The real object disperses the light to create a photoshop effect within seconds. Similarly, window glass, plastic wrap, aluminium foils can be used to create various visual effects effectively.
~ Hari Bhagirath Photography
Your photography workshop was great
ReplyDeleteI have an editor to this effect used in a pic that had the sunset is perfect!
ReplyDeleteI use filters and objects to get the effect. Here our use of photoshop is limited to creating water marks. I use Lightroom to correct brightness and framing. In art photography use of Photoshop is considered not to be good
ReplyDeleteUse of editors can be achieved by simple use of objects and stuff in out of focus to get the same results
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