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Flower by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

Flower by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

Flower by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

Flower by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

Tree by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

Sky by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

This post has been edited by little ice: Oct 4 2012, 01:12 PM

glad you like it but why lah compare compare?

photo editing software. this is what you can do (i like this shot by eidda so decided to enhance to give it more punch ).

original:
after treatment:



oh? i sense maksud tersirat...

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Added on October 5, 2012, 11:56 amto be honest, some of the shots quite different from the original. if it's not because of photo editing, it won't look as good.

This post has been edited by little ice: Oct 5 2012, 11:56 AM

do i need to get approval from you aspire? yes i got no skill so i can't post as a "cheater"?

well at least i don't expect ANY camera to do this without single editing. i don't have a problem to admit i got no skill. i enjoy when people like my photos, not when i get praised as sifu or pro.


Strange place by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

This post has been edited by little ice: Oct 5 2012, 01:08 PM

can't you just get it straight to the point and say out loud that i have no skill? seriously, i don't mind.

anyway, more (some photo set to private to avoid people peeping at EXIF to check if i'm cheating )...

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Flower by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

Flower by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

Night shot by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

This post has been edited by little ice: Oct 5 2012, 02:03 PM

lol. how can people judge the original OOC shots based on the edited images are beyond me.

i have no problem admitting i have no skill and need improving, but go all out and pointing bulat bulat i used lightroom without any elaboration and constructive criticism?


done.

actually, i'm more than happy if anyone can shed some light on how i can improve on photography.

all i get was "they look nice, but you need to go back to the basic of photography". so what's exactly wrong on my works? are they so bad? but they look nice? but they're so bad to the extent i need to go back to the basic of photography? what the??

some of the shots were taken having to post process in mind because i'm working beyond what the camera isn't capable of, for examples:

1. harsh mid noon sunlight - you either get overblown highlights, or overly dark shadows.
2. muted colors by default - instead of tweaking the saturation setting in-camera, i use better software to do it later.
3. over saturated colors - some of them, even leaving all settings to default or even negative saturation setting, some of the vibrant colored flowers still can be easily overblown resulting a hugh blotch of the same color. i even need to desaturate the specific colors or else they look out of balance.

in fact, most of the flower shots received only minor editing. those HDR shots on the other hand were done on purpose.

and why working beyond the limitation of the camera? because i'm a casual shooter, i like taking photos when i have the mood. unfortunately, most of the recent shots were taken under bright and harsh sunlight. do i have to wait until the light is right and shoot again? sorry, that's a waste of time to me. i have more important things to do in life than spending so much time taking shots at the right moment just to post it on the web and hope to get praised as being skillful, heh. if i were to work around the limitation of the camera phone i would have taken much less photos (part of the reason why you don't see much indoor and night shots using camera phone).

i totally understand the need to go back to the basic of photography, getting OOC right is important so give the post processing maximum. but again i was shoved down the throat with this "going back to basic of photography" and "dunno how to drive already want to modify car" without even pointing a single flaw of my works. what gives?

because of all that, the only conclusion i can come out with, is "i need to rely on editing to get good images", hence "editing is cheating".


by the way, if anyone of you insisting post processing is cheating, i feel sorry for ya - it shows that your definition of art is very limited and poor. i like this quote that i came across the internet "if post processing is cheating, it's like saying an artist having the 64 colors in his hands, and go out to buy few more colors".

This post has been edited by little ice: Oct 5 2012, 11:24 PM

i see a strong misperception here. that's all I can say.

guess camera phone shooter and proper camera shooter are different species afterall...

This post has been edited by little ice: Oct 6 2012, 09:02 AM

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Music meet digital by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr


Seven steps to heaven by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr


Moonlight sonata...? by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

This post has been edited by little ice: Oct 6 2012, 08:51 PM

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Restaurant by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr


Appetizer by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

This post has been edited by little ice: Oct 6 2012, 08:52 PM

lol thanks, but no support also ok de, not that they're nice pictures anyway, just some random sh!ts.

This post has been edited by little ice: Oct 7 2012, 11:31 AM

Nokia 808 night shots testing one two three...


Night shot by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr


Night Shot by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

eh don't peep my pimples leh...


huh? worry...what??

Nokia 808 night shots with PP testing three two one...


Night Shot PP by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr


Night Shot PP by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr


original that was posted a page before:



This post has been edited by little ice: Oct 7 2012, 12:46 PM

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Night shot by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

Nokia 808 night shot post-process testing (original posted above)...

EDIT: removed...

This post has been edited by little ice: Oct 8 2012, 05:10 PM

thank you for your input.


as sifu advised, here's the outcome and indeed much better, the previous one look washed out


Night shot PP 2 by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

This post has been edited by little ice: Oct 8 2012, 04:29 PM

it was a long exposure shot, so that's why the sky is bright.

by looking at aspire's night shot, i only see total darkness night skies. you mean that's more desirable?

haha that's exactly what i wanted to achieve. guess i like ugly shots.

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Added on October 8, 2012, 5:06 pmeh i think flickr robbed quite some details off the jpeg during upload so not easy to PP that i think...

EDIT: i realized i disabled the download for my gallery, fixed now.

This post has been edited by little ice: Oct 8 2012, 05:45 PM