Walter Gilbert wrote: > what do all of you real photographers do with images that may >be flawed, but still have some redeeming qualities to them. For >instance, a shot that's too poorly focused to rescue with sharpening >tools and so forth, but does capture a sense of action that is somewhat >appealing. Like this one, for example: > >http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7X4Utq1sTP4AoZG2S3S0zQ?feat=directlink
That's a great question. There are many answers and it largely depends on to what end you put your photography. The image you used as an example could be an excellent illustration in some applications. (With some Photoshop tweaking it might be work even better as a "photo illustration", as they're sometimes termed.) Out-of-focus shots can sometimes serve as backgrounds in multimedia applications or print layouts. Sometimes a composition that doesn't work as a standalone shot serves as an excellent container or background to a montage. In one instance that has gone down in PDML history, someone posted a shot of a Cormorant in a tree and expressed disappointment that he couldn't quite make the composition work as well as he would have liked. Then Cotty pointed out that the empty areas of the frame were situated in a way that made it ideal for a magazine cover. The mock-up he whipped together to make his point left reverberations that are being felt to this day: http://www.robertstech.com/graphics/pages/1cormorant.htm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
