Photographic Cheating 101

[manaheim]

Take pictures of repeating objects with lots of colors...

c/c welcome if desired.

 

[480sparky47 47]

How is that cheating? I think it's a great capture!

BTW, it's a bit flat and dull. I put an S into the curve and bumped the saturation up a bit.

 

[manaheim]

I dunno, I've always felt like the pattern of colors thing was a total cheat, even though it's cool. Maybe because it's always cool.

Nice edit! You totally made it pop. Thanks for doing that!

 

[480sparky47 47]

I dunno, I've always felt like the pattern of colors thing was a total cheat, even though it's cool. Maybe because it's always cool.

If that's cheating, I've never heard of it.

Nice edit! You totally made it pop. Thanks for doing that!

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[snowbear123 55]

It's only cheating if you used Photoshop or un-natural light like a flash.
I call it a good composition and a nice use of color.

Nice shot, regardless.

 

[amolitor]

It's cheating because everyone will love it, but it says nothing, shows nothing, and doesn't even have a subject.

This is a laziest of the lazy shots -- and the bunny even made it of flowers, and flowers of any kind are among the lazy, easy ones!

 

[The_Traveler]

IMO, this is not well composed because:

viewers' eyes are drawn by three things; bright lights, bright colors and things in focus.

We've got lots of those all mixed up here:
what's in focus isn't in bright colors or bright light
what has bright colors isn't in focus or in an important spot
there are lots of spots of bright light but none of them are on what is in focus or in the important spots

 

[manaheim]

I think amolitor and traveler nailed it... but that also raises an interesting question... can you take the cheater shot, keep those kinds of things in mind and make it actually be a useful shot. I'm now going to have to try that.

Thanks, everyone for your comments.

Sparky... "check" is in the "mail".

 

[Frequency]

This is not the image quality i expect from Manny. The presentation of flowers is such that viewers eye enter into the image from right bottom corner...and there every thing is OOF. I would prefer a receding OOF than middle focusing here... So i accept, you cheated me that said, i like the colors and the subject