Fashions In Photography

[Kirislin]

Just an observation, there's as much fashion in photography styles as there is in the clothing industry I think. :laugh:

for a while it was all shallow depth of field, then overstaturated colours and glossy blacks, then the lomo effect, then HDR, and now all these muted tones and creamy coloured skies.

Oh, and I forgot to say, I've liked them all.

Edited May 10, 2012 by Kirislin

[gapvic]

I can't stand HDR but love the vintage styles with muted tones :)

[huga]

I often worry that I will look back on my images and cringe. But I think that would be the case for most people. At least I have never spot coloured :laugh:

[Kirislin]

I really like HDR if it's not those glowing freaky blues and greens. It doesn't look real, I remember one that had an almost cartoony look about it, but I really liked it, although in that particular photo the subject matter was perfect, I recall there was an old truck and buildings that looked like something from the 30's or 40's.

[huga]

If you look at previous APPA award winners, a lot of them have that HDR and very dark vibe. But it's (mostly) done well.

http://www.appa.aippblog.com/?page_id=1795

Processing for awards is very different to how I'd process client images.

[Kirislin]

I'm a dag, I've never been one for wearing the latest fashions and I haven't done any of the photography fashions either, except for the shallow depth of field and only because it suits my style (if I have one) of photography which is usually super fast shutter speeds to capture whippets running at 100 miles per hour :laugh:

[huga]

I love this image (and the processing) so very much:

[Kirislin]

Oh yes, layering!

[huga]

Yeah, it has texture, but it also has the HDR thing happening. Probably hard to see. In print it's magic. I was watching the awards when it came up last year, and there was a collective gasp in the room.

[Kirislin]

It's lovely alright, I can almost smell the scones baking in the old woodfire oven.

[Linda K]

you forgot the awful selective colouring, where random things in the image were coloured which were nothing to do with the subject (and so take the attention away), or the hideous eyes coloured, but the rest is B & W

[helen]

some people are still doing selective colouring and I just wasnt to close my eyes :)

[Are You Serious Jo]

HDR done properly is awesome, you have probably seen too many overcooked images.

[gapvic]

Yes, way way too many. I have seen some lovely ones, but the badly overdone ones have completely put me off.