I've gotten at least 4 comments saying my photo is too dark. It should be lighter and it would be better.
Well, excuse me...but Since when is the corporate world something joyful and wonderful. The photo is dark for a reason, infact, I made multiple adjustments to it and the dark one kept catching me and dragging me down further and further along the right path. I thought the darkness of the photo actually adds to the overall mood but I guess people want a "perfect" vibrant colored photo with perfect contrast?
In my opinion, the corporate world is far from joyful and happy. Plenty of backstabbing, under the table dealings and other shady things. I guess some people don't get it?
It's not that people don't get it. What you are experiencing is your subjective comments. Some people don't like the lighting.. others will undoubtedly say that they like it. :)
No, psychephylax the don't ALL get it and never will. This has been hashed here often. The trick is to relay your thought, idea or emotion etc., and have everyone 'get it'. LOL Hey, I said it was a trick!!
You can shoot for the popular vote or you can shoot to reflect your true self. It is probably the same for any artist. Sometimes people just don't get the intent of why something was done a certain way. I must admit that I'm guilty of that myself and I don't think it is always the fault of the photo. Other times people just don't agree with what was done and are being honest in expressing so.
This challenge I broke some compositional rules and used some uncommon color adjustments to reinforce the photo's message. As anticipated, it is doing worse than any of my prior photos. Some got it while other's didn't. If you want a high score, use bright contrasting colors and have a razor sharp focus with infinite DOF.
kee has a point .. sometimes the illusion substitutes for the reality.
a very good example of this is the way that the convention in tv and movies for 'night time' is blue lighting. it's not actually dark but we go along that it's 'night' because this is the convention.
studying cinematographic lighting is a big help here for understanding how professionals portray extremes and yet keep it intelligible, meaningful, and understandable.
Originally posted by psychephylax: Maybe I''m stupid or something but...
I''ve gotten at least 4 comments saying my photo is too dark. It should be lighter and it would be better.
Well, excuse me...but Since when is the corporate world something joyful and wonderful. The photo is dark for a reason, infact, I made multiple adjustments to it and the dark one kept catching me and dragging me down further and further along the right path. I thought the darkness of the photo actually adds to the overall mood but I guess people want a "perfect" vibrant colored photo with perfect contrast?
In my opinion, the corporate world is far from joyful and happy. Plenty of backstabbing, under the table dealings and other shady things. I guess some people don''t get it?
I really don''t think the majority of voters here are that naive that they can''t spot a dark picture that''s meant to be dark - but it''s not easy to get a really good dark picture spot on, and the line between brilliant and bad is very fine indeed. If I got a bunch of comments stating it was too dark, I might just start thinking that it really was too dark and try to correct the problem rather than automatically assuming that the voter is not clever enough to understand what you are trying to achieve…
We''ll have to wait until the voting finishes and re-open the discussion – remember, beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
* This message has been edited by the author on 7/31/2002 11:27:58 AM.
