10b Photography has established itself as one of the world’s leading digital darkrooms, handling post-production for scores of award-winning photojournalists who trust that the company knows where to draw the line between processing and manipulation. [...] 10b is quick to point out that it is not a retouching firm. The term is often associated with Photoshop experts, who are hired to alter the look and shape of fashion icons, for example. So when it comes to defining Palmisano's role, it can get tricky. Post-processing in the digital age.
posted by shakespeherian
on Dec 21, 2011 -
28 comments
Christophe Huet and other talented artists at the
Asile studio in Paris produce amazingly lifelike and realistic CGI and photomanipulated creations. (Flash and audio, but the music, also created by Huet, is lovely.) Some images NSFW.
posted by Gator
on May 18, 2011 -
6 comments
Photo Tampering Through History. A regularly-updated collection, from 1860 to present, of examples of photo manipulation. Sometimes the changes are made for historical revisionism, sometimes for political maneuvering, and sometimes it's just a "wtf?" The page is part of a larger body of work by Dartmouth's
Hany Farid, who has some
other interesting
goodies online.
[Warning for the Pepsi Blue detectives: In some of his pages, he's shilling for his consulting services]
posted by amyms
on Aug 30, 2008 -
29 comments
Charlotte Observer photographer Patrick Schneider has been fired. After a 2003
incident in which the North Carolina Press Association stripped him of his awards for three pictures (before and after can be seen
here) the Observer has fired Schneider over the alteration of
this image. The question remains among photojournalists: is it
unethical to alter a photo in such a way that it more closely resembles what the eye saw and the camera is unable to capture, or is this a deceptive practice that damages the public's trust?
posted by TheGoldenOne
on Jul 28, 2006 -
78 comments
The Radiant Vista is a new photography site on the web that offers photoshop tutorials (in Quicktime and PDF) and daily photo critiques (Quicktime). Not much here for non-photographers, but I know a number of members have some interest in taking pictures and might find something good here.
posted by TedW
on Nov 15, 2005 -
14 comments
All Ur Pics R Belong 2 Us? Over the last three weeks there's been a
storm of protest after
Thomas Knoll (of Adobe Photoshop fame) revealed that Nikon are encrypting the White Balance data (used to ensure correct colour) in the
RAW files generated by their
latest cameras and that Adobe are unwilling to break the encryption in their
Camera RAW software thanks to fears they could be prosecuted under the DCMA. Whilst
others appear to have no
such worries, many are calling for the camera manufacturers to
document their proprietary formats so images will not be lost over time. So have Nikon just taken a shot of
their own foot?
posted by arc
on May 10, 2005 -
23 comments
The Floating Logos Project .
'Floating Logos' is a working title for this project. The images are inspired by signs perched high atop very tall poles in order for people to view them from a very long distance. The poles are digitally removed from the image in order to give the illusion that the signs are disconnected from the ground as they ominously float above us.
posted by Hands of Manos
on Dec 17, 2004 -
61 comments
Photoshop is fourteen years old this month. I am sitting in its
hometown and have version 7 on my Gateway.
Loretta Lux was trained as a painter and now uses digital images via photoshop for her
art. (NYTimes
article) News photographers have
lost their jobs for using it. Some would argue that photoshop is a new
medium and I would agree. I will use it next to shape the images that will promote my sons' landscaping business.
posted by JohnR
on Feb 29, 2004 -
23 comments
Press photographer stripped of award; accused of
overly darkening some portions in the digital editing process. Nothing was added or moved. Explains N.C. Press Photographers Assoc. president Chuck Liddy: You might say, "Gosh, I don't like the way this background looks I can get rid of this with a couple of keystrokes". No contortions in the darkroom with your hands and a dodging wand. No making ten or fifteen prints over a two hour period to get that print just right. Nope, just go and use the lasso tool, yank those levels to the max and VIOLA! the background disappears. Burning has always been an acceptable action. Burning to "de-emphasize" a background is something all of us do. But deleting the background by using some of the powerful tools Photoshop offers is totally unacceptable and violates the ethics code we adhere to. Schneider, the photographer, responds in an
NPR interview (scroll down to audio link). In this allegedly
unethical photo, Schneider says he corrected for overexposure. Is this a backlash against digital manipulation, which rankles the old school because it is simply too easy?
posted by found missing
on Aug 30, 2003 -
31 comments
Dangerous Road Signs. Okay, so, I'm posting a link to a photoshop contest: I'm lame, that's a long established fact. That said, some of these really did amuse me - take a gander if you're up for a laugh.
posted by jonson
on Jun 14, 2003 -
17 comments
Photoshop Tennis -- Lauded graphic designers (including a well loved mefi member) participate in a volley of skills: "It's a pretty simple idea really. One player emails a photoshop document to the other containing a single layer. Each player progressively adds a layer until the match is over, either by time, withdrawal or mutual consent. A guest adds comments in real time and the people watching vote for a winner"
posted by katexmcfly
on Sep 9, 2001 -
28 comments
In a startling piece of cross-media usefulness WebMonkey has just published a reasonably deep article on using cheap cameras, film cross-processing, and Polaroid transfer techniques to squeeze some hipper images out of your repressed creative side. Time to quit Photoshop for a while and get your hand dirty. And I foolishly went through four years of
art college to learn this stuff... But then, where was WebMonkey in the late eighties?
posted by grant
on Dec 18, 1999 -
0 comments
