C&C: Blown white background?

[Gaerek]

Cool! Another MegaThread in the making!

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[MissCream]

They look good to me, I notice the same thing going from my iMac to my pc laptop, everything looks like crap on the laptop. At least when I get pictures printed they look like what I see on my mac. For some reason the kid looks a little cartoonish or something, can't quite put my finger on it.

 

[pgriz]

Sabrina, in my opinion, you really do have to cut Kundalini some slack. He knows his stuff. And if you let him share it with you, you'll be that much further down the road. If he thinks you've overreached, well, maybe you have. And maybe he can help you get where you are trying so hard to get to. But you have to work with the man. Anyway, that's my opinion and neither you nor Kundalini need to agree - it's my third-party view, for what it's worth.

 

[adversus]

just [/I]a high key thing to have a background blown? Anyways you are on ignore. Not really but talking to you is just a waste of valuable time

Sorry again Sabrina, but talking to me is in actuality, is a dose of reality. Your statement of "With high key... backgrounds are completely blown." shows your ignorance. I don't mean that in a derogative nature, but again, showing that you are not where you think you are. In a high key image .... NOTHING IS BLOWN OUT!

Truely, I am near the end of my rope in thinking that I am wasting my time here. But you're too much fun.

High Key = Reduce the contrast ratio, eliminate shadows.
Blown out = Areas of a photograph where information is lost due to extreme brightness.

So in essence, someone could use the words interchangeably, as Sabrina attempted to do before you took a virtual ruler to her knuckles. The lines between the two can get blurred pretty easy, and I don't see that they fit into their little respective boxes without ever touching.

I would call #2 in her original post high-key, rather than blown out.

Further-more, her statement of "with high key... backgrounds are completely blown" is accurate. The bright background with little separation of subject to background common in high-key lighting also *gasp* means information in that "high-key" area is lost, i.e. blown out.

 

[SabrinaO]

They look good to me, I notice the same thing going from my iMac to my pc laptop, everything looks like crap on the laptop. At least when I get pictures printed they look like what I see on my mac. For some reason the kid looks a little cartoonish or something, can't quite put my finger on it.

I think its her eyes. I duplicated the layer and then sharpened then erased all that i didn't want sharp.. (her skin and the background). I think its a little too sharp. Ill fix it thanks!

 

[SabrinaO]

just [/I]a high key thing to have a background blown? Anyways you are on ignore. Not really but talking to you is just a waste of valuable time

Sorry again Sabrina, but talking to me is in actuality, is a dose of reality. Your statement of "With high key... backgrounds are completely blown." shows your ignorance. I don't mean that in a derogative nature, but again, showing that you are not where you think you are. In a high key image .... NOTHING IS BLOWN OUT!

Truely, I am near the end of my rope in thinking that I am wasting my time here. But you're too much fun.

First of all... the background IS blown. It is a pure, super white. How do you get that? By blowing out the background. Accept it. In high key the background is blown and the subject is bright, but NOT blown. If the subject were blown that of course would look horrible...

 

[kundalini]

High Key = Reduce the contrast ratio, eliminate shadows.
Blown out = Areas of a photograph where information is lost due to extreme brightness.

So in essence, someone could use the words interchangeably, as Sabrina attempted to do before you took a virtual ruler to her knuckles. The lines between the two can get blurred pretty easy, and I don't see that they fit into their little respective boxes without ever touching.

You are contradicting yourself and the remainder is utter nonsense.

 

[adversus]

How is that contradictory?

You reduce the contrast ratio and eliminate shadows by very bright backgrounds and subjects.
You blow out a background (and lose any information about it) by getting a very bright background.

 

[SabrinaO]

Sabrina, in my opinion, you really do have to cut Kundalini some slack. He knows his stuff. And if you let him share it with you, you'll be that much further down the road. If he thinks you've overreached, well, maybe you have. And maybe he can help you get where you are trying so hard to get to. But you have to work with the man. Anyway, that's my opinion and neither you nor Kundalini need to agree - it's my third-party view, for what it's worth.

I don't care how much he knows. How does he expect someone to learn from him if hes gonna constantly have an arrogant self-righteous attitude? Do you expect or think its easy for people to look past that? Sorry i've learned a TON on here and not from him, but from people that are brutally honest without purposely trying to make someone feel small.

 

[SabrinaO]

How is that contradictory?

You reduce the contrast ratio and eliminate shadows by very bright backgrounds and subjects.
You blow out a background (and lose any information about it) by getting a very bright background.

Its basically the same thing he just doesn't want to see it. Or he just doesn't want to admit hes wrong.

 

[kundalini]

 

[Jeatley]

Well this is fun! Why did I get away from this site for a while! Im missing some great stuff!