I am quite taken aback that my personal reason for
No photographer is going to be able to mimic your style, even with your techniques being used. No one has your taste, or your vision, or has gone through the life experience that has helped you develop your art and style over the last 10 years.
Totally agree, that is why there is little point in sharing the post processing techniques that motivate my style and aesthetic as it will inevitably be different to another persons. That's why I firmly believe that people should experiment in order to discover their own approach.
and how they will experiment and try different things if no one is willing to share their knowledge? I highly doubt that any of us would learn this much by ourselves and I doubt that you figured out everything by yourself without seeing and exploring other people's work.
If you have just PS in front of you without any tutorial, you will be able to figure out some stuff on your own but you would need a lot more time and experimentation.
Anyway, you're entitled to your opinion and there's not much point in this discussion.
Of course I explored other peoples work. I've sat in libraries reading books on renaissance painting techniques and studied the lighting techniques of renaissance painters and those from the Romantic period like Gericault. I've closely examined the colour pallete of painters like Rembrandt to create my own custom palletes and brushes in photoshop. These are the people who have inspired me and using my own abilities and drive to learn have managed to translate the elements of their work that I admire into my own photographic style.
You asked me to share my post processing technique and I politely declined to do that for reasons that I am perfectly entitled to hold. However, now you're criticising me for the response that I gave. I'd understand if I'd posted my image in one of the 'beginner' or 'techniques' forum but I didn't. I posted my image in this forum as I just wanted to share my work.
I'm pretty new to this forum and I have to say I'm a little disappointed with the attitude.
She did no such thing, nor did I. This forum is meant to help educate each other and for discussion. If someone asks about your technique and you're so protective of it that you refuse to share, we also have the right to share our opinion as to why we think that's unreasonable and in your own words disappointing.
I just posted my photo on here to share. I was asked whether I wanted to share my post processing technique and I politely declined to do so. I am
No photographer is going to be able to mimic your style, even with your techniques being used. No one has your taste, or your vision, or has gone through the life experience that has helped you develop your art and style over the last 10 years.
Totally agree, that is why there is little point in sharing the post processing techniques that motivate my style and aesthetic as it will inevitably be different to another persons. That's why I firmly believe that people should experiment in order to discover their own approach.
and how they will experiment and try different things if no one is willing to share their knowledge? I highly doubt that any of us would learn this much by ourselves and I doubt that you figured out everything by yourself without seeing and exploring other people's work.
If you have just PS in front of you without any tutorial, you will be able to figure out some stuff on your own but you would need a lot more time and experimentation.
Anyway, you're entitled to your opinion and there's not much point in this discussion.
Of course I explored other peoples work. I've sat in libraries reading books on renaissance painting techniques and studied the lighting techniques of renaissance painters and those from the Romantic period like Gericault. I've closely examined the colour pallete of painters like Rembrandt to create my own custom palletes and brushes in photoshop. These are the people who have inspired me and using my own abilities and drive to learn have managed to translate the elements of their work that I admire into my own photographic style.
You asked me to share my post processing technique and I politely declined to do that for reasons that I am perfectly entitled to hold. However, now you're criticising me for the response that I gave. I'd understand if I'd posted my image in one of the 'beginner' or 'techniques' forum but I didn't. I posted my image in this forum as I just wanted to share my work.
I'm pretty new to this forum and I have to say I'm a little disappointed with the attitude.
She did no such thing, nor did I. This forum is meant to help educate each other and for discussion. If someone asks about your technique and you're so protective of it that you refuse to share, we also have the right to share our opinion as to why we think that's unreasonable and in your own words disappointing.
I posted in this forum in order to share my work. I was asked whether I would share my post processing technique and I politely declined. Following that I have been dragged into this pointless debate about attitudes to knowledge sharing despite the fact that I’m under no obligation to share my technique and nor have I posted in a forum where that would be expected. That being said, if somebody asks, how do curves work, or what are the benefits of LAB mode etc. then I’d be more than happy to assist.
If you have any comments/feedback about my photo then that’s fine, although if you want to discuss the merits of knowledge sharing / post processing then it might be better to take it to a different forum.
Cheers,
