Is It Natural?

Just read some more of this thread.

I have some comments on the 'brain' - I come from an Audio engineering background , amongst other things and our brains will compensate for an uneven frequency response.

For example I could play a pecie of music with the HF boosted and at first it will sound very trebly. but after a while the brain compensates. Take away the HF boost and return it to flat response and it'll sound very dull for a while until the brain readjusts

The Brain also does this with colour. Many years ago as an experiment ( I was bored ) on a long car journey I held a peice of blue lighting gel in front of my face ( no I wasn't driving ) for a few hours.

Got to the destination and removed the lighting Gel. For about 20 minutes I couldn't see blue. My brain had compensated for the heavy blue colour cast and 'equalised' it out. And then it took some time to recover.

Hey, that sounds almost exactly like what I was saying before! I think that we compensate out the 'cast' on different surfaces based on our perception of the dominant natural tone on each object - eg the stonework in Davids picture. It is when the camera has not done this, spreading a single cast across the whole picture indiscrimimately, that we start to find it 'unnatural'.

Good to find some common ground

I like the second shot, the first one was a bit purply. What settings on your camera did you use to take this please?

Hello

1. Natural or not this is a cracking shot David - I note the info given above about the split toning and this follows on from a conversation we had at Martin Mere in that the options exist in post processing so why not use them.

2. I don't think that it matters at all unless you were to represent it as being unprocessed when it is not and you have not so no problem - again it's a great shot and one I would be proud of but 4am - if I do have that kind of commitment I am yet to locate it

Dare I say it but surely 'artistic licence' applies to photo's as well.

Cheers


Stu

are you saying that Mark and shaun pp all of there photos and that none are Natural shots they are made in photoshop?? i think thats a bit of green eye there sean lol if so i for one would like to hear what shaun and mark have to say to that ??

I just can't get the image of Smeggy out of my head, sat in the back of a car bombing up or was it down the M whatever, with a bit of blue gel gafferd over his face it's made my day ... I must try it . jeff....

Hi Aura, the settings used were:

Camera Make: PENTAX
Camera Model: PENTAX K-5
Date Taken: 2012-09-22 06:28:52
Exposure Program: Aperture priority
F-Stop: f/8
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Focal Length: 16 mm
Metering Mode: Pattern/Matrix
Exposure Time: 2.0 sec

Regards
David