A Feast for the Eyes
September 7, 2014 4:45 PM Subscribe
To be honest, I was hankering for some straightforward winter photography to combat my summertime blues. What I got was HDR'd, oversaturated, heavily post-processed, Disney-fied fantasy images that left me - well, a bit...cold. Sorry.
posted by Greg_Ace at 5:11 PM on September 7, 2014 [7 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 5:11 PM on September 7, 2014 [7 favorites]
Some of those are really beautiful, especially the shots of the birds. Some of them are... HDR'd all to hell, which is a damn shame.
posted by lydhre at 5:29 PM on September 7, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by lydhre at 5:29 PM on September 7, 2014 [3 favorites]
Definitely a bit of oversaturation going on (it's the new dodging-and-burning, I guess), but who among us hasn't felt like this at times?
posted by uosuaq at 6:28 PM on September 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by uosuaq at 6:28 PM on September 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
I just realized that HDR=Thomas Kinkade.
posted by Muddler at 6:33 PM on September 7, 2014 [9 favorites]
posted by Muddler at 6:33 PM on September 7, 2014 [9 favorites]
Sorry. I still hate winter.
posted by caryatid at 7:03 PM on September 7, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by caryatid at 7:03 PM on September 7, 2014 [2 favorites]
Yeah...a little too special-effectsy for my tastes. It's surely some very skilled photography—you don't get images like these without knowing what you're doing—but most of them are lovely scenes whose direct, unassuming beauty has been drenched under two inches of HDR frosting. Kinkade indeed.
The one that uosuaq points out is a nice exception. You can practically hear that bird muttering "oh my god, fuck this shit".
posted by escape from the potato planet at 7:11 PM on September 7, 2014
The one that uosuaq points out is a nice exception. You can practically hear that bird muttering "oh my god, fuck this shit".
posted by escape from the potato planet at 7:11 PM on September 7, 2014
I miss winters. I need to move north, soon.
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 8:03 PM on September 7, 2014
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 8:03 PM on September 7, 2014
I don't miss winter except for looking at it and such images as this are quite sufficient to satisfy any nostalgia I might have for winter. Also, I am mad for Elena Sumilova's images.
posted by Anitanola at 8:47 PM on September 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Anitanola at 8:47 PM on September 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
Not so wonderful for those of us with snow in the forecast THIS WEEK.
posted by blue_beetle at 9:37 PM on September 7, 2014
posted by blue_beetle at 9:37 PM on September 7, 2014
Mostly I just take pictures of the girls running around like idiots and biting each other, but if we get a good solid single-snowfall dumping this year I might see if I can replicate that Beetle shot.
It's mostly been a nice summer, in contrast to the last couple, and we only got about two weeks total of Totally Gross Hot Muggy. But even so, it's time for summer to fuck right off and let it start that long, glorious cooling slide through fall.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:48 PM on September 7, 2014
It's mostly been a nice summer, in contrast to the last couple, and we only got about two weeks total of Totally Gross Hot Muggy. But even so, it's time for summer to fuck right off and let it start that long, glorious cooling slide through fall.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:48 PM on September 7, 2014
Not so wonderful for those of us with snow in the forecast THIS WEEK.
Dude, that is some straight up bullshit, even for Canada. I'd have a word with the management if I were you.
Winter would be great if it were about a month long instead of FOREVER.
It's cute until your eyes freeze.
Every day.
posted by louche mustachio at 11:03 PM on September 7, 2014 [4 favorites]
Dude, that is some straight up bullshit, even for Canada. I'd have a word with the management if I were you.
Winter would be great if it were about a month long instead of FOREVER.
It's cute until your eyes freeze.
Every day.
posted by louche mustachio at 11:03 PM on September 7, 2014 [4 favorites]
You wanna see some "lovely pictures of winter" I am sure there will be plenty when it is actually winter. Until then, in deference to those of us who live in places where winter turns everything into a grim, dark, icy, neverending hellscape y'all can wait.
That's one of the things I do, to combat the hopelessness; point my camera at something that looks pretty for a second and hope my fingers don't fall off.
posted by louche mustachio at 11:11 PM on September 7, 2014 [2 favorites]
That's one of the things I do, to combat the hopelessness; point my camera at something that looks pretty for a second and hope my fingers don't fall off.
posted by louche mustachio at 11:11 PM on September 7, 2014 [2 favorites]
Flagged for: Too soon.
posted by sparklemotion at 6:57 AM on September 8, 2014 [4 favorites]
posted by sparklemotion at 6:57 AM on September 8, 2014 [4 favorites]
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I wish we got proper winters in my neck of the woods. Our winters are rubbish.
posted by turbid dahlia at 4:52 PM on September 7, 2014 [2 favorites]