Cape Blanco by photosynthesis
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A view of the Cape Blanco lighthouse. It was taken on the trail that leads down to the beach that you can see at the base of the cliff. This is the same beach where I shot the photo of the raccoon that I posted yesterday.
Full disclosure: I photoshopped out a radio tower & several poles & blended in a sky that I had shot the previous day on a different beach. I know there are some of you who insist on a greater fidelity to the real world & I respect that position, but I don't share it. My attitude towards realism in photography (& art in general) was nicely summarized by Virginia Woolf: "Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough."...
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Comments (13)
giulband
nice shot , nice place
whaleman
Very nice shot, and nothing wrong with some editing, I see enough realism! As soon as wind generators start to find their way into my lens view I will start editing them out!
GARAGELAND
I totaly agree with you on this. Its the finished product that Counts ! Years ago way back in my youth I had the pleasure of watchig an old School photo developer in the darkroom. And beleave me he used every trick in the book to make the photo Pop. Tones, contrast, ect. even working on certain Areas of the pic. What came out was far better than the original shot. The "Tools" he used were not so different as the ones we use today, but the process took a lot longer and needed great skill to master (if you made a mistake you had to start from scratch) My Point is editing has been around a Long Long time. b.t.w. great shot.
ronmolina
Beautiful!
auntietk
The result is terrific! I'd never know you replaced the sky. Great job!
brewgirlca
I think you did a great job and had you not anything no one would notice...or probably care. Even now it is not possible to tell, at least at a casual glance. I totally agree - both from physics and aesthetic points of view. Firstly, the camera does not capture "reality" anyways. It is only a machine. For one thing the human eye covers about 20 stops of sensitivity but the best cameras are pushing 14, most are in the 8-10 range, so no unaltered shot can capture the full range of human experience anyways. We fill in shadow details the camera cannot capture. Aesthetically, and I recently posted this on my own shot "Memories"......"For me I want to capture not only what is, but also what I feel it could be. The more I work in this media the more I realize realism is only important if that is what I feel is most expressive of the image. "
Rob2753
It's a lovely landscape well composed and I love the distant lighthouse !
Faemike55
Very beautiful scene Great vista
UVDan
I love your photo! It matters not what post work you have done. I used to spend hours in the darkroom and go through many sheets of photo paper to get what I wanted when I did traditional film photography. I came to love the smell of stop bath so much, I probably would have married any woman who wore it as a perfume. I often add dramatic skies to my own photos because here in Arizona we have such blue, cloudless skies most of the time. Of course if one is practicing Photojournalism, then I believe you should not add to the photo nor detract from it.
MrsRatbag
I would never have suspected the sky was changed; it seems to fit so perfectly well! Well done, and I also think the picture is the important thing!
pimanjc
Beautful vista.
bmac62
Amen brother! Postwork is at least half the fun. Beautiful result.
danapommet
I zoomed and your results are perfect. I love this spectacular capture and the "disclosure" doesn't mater to me at all!