10-12-11 – Infrastructure

For blemishes and the like, it’s intended for things that are just a few pixels, not a face full of acne, …

So I guess we can’t fix this poor thing then?

Alas, no 🙁

Well, we could start with hair and costume. Then move on to pose and lighting. Come back for eyebrows and makeup. And finally, a thick coat of Vaseline on the lens and maybe a smile. Anything can be fixed.

If you are taking a photo and say to yourself, “Oh, I’ll just fix that in Photoshop,” then perhaps you should stop and correct it properly in the first place. Think of it similar to the process of building a house: it’s better to level the foundation in the first place, than to shim the walls to correct that.

If you are taking a photo and say to yourself, “Oh, I’ll just fix that in Photoshop,” then perhaps you should stop and correct it properly in the first place.

That’s probably one of the best summations of the ideal behind Farktography that I’ve seen.

I don’t mean this to just apply to Farktography contests, but to all photographs: focus, sharpness, blur, white balance, exposure, highlights, flare, aberrations, etc. I realize that a lot of the corrections allowed for Farktography can be batch processed on a whole series of photos, e.g. white balance or exposure, but I still think would would be more efficient to do those once in the camera, instead of to each image afterwards.

In my opinion, creating a montage or mosaic in Photoshop is not a “fix,” but a purposeful artistic or technical process. I figure that we forbid it in Farktography, since we’re here for photos, not montages. My employer is rather strict as well about limiting post-processing for publicly released photos. Doctored photos make it look like we’re trying to hide something from the public.

For blemishes and the like, it’s intended for things that are just a few pixels, not a face full of acne, …

So I guess we can’t fix this poor thing then?

Alas, no 🙁

Well, we could start with hair and costume. Then move on to pose and lighting. Come back for eyebrows and makeup. And finally, a thick coat of Vaseline on the lens and maybe a smile. Anything can be fixed.

If you are taking a photo and say to yourself, “Oh, I’ll just fix that in Photoshop,” then perhaps you should stop and correct it properly in the first place. Think of it similar to the process of building a house: it’s better to level the foundation in the first place, than to shim the walls to correct that.

The PoPo don’t usually worry about that stuff for mugshots! 😛

Sweet. It seems as though I’m back up before the bot scrubbed the thread 😀

And Elsinore nah I’ll just go with the other two. That’s what I get for second guessing my shots right before contest time when I’m hungry and horny and tired.