On Jan 23, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > A number of factors influence this. In any scene that you gaze at, > objects that are brighter, more contrasty, or warmer coloured, all > attract your attention over parts of the image that are darker, are in > cooler colours, or have less contrast. Taken to the limit you get the > classic HDR look. > > Then sites like 500px reward images that get the quick Likes by upping > their chances of being shown -- it's very circular. > > I challenge you to spend more than an hour or two viewing images on > 500px. Because of the voting system's bias you'll soon see that images > look much alike there. It's like restaurant's tendency to over-salt > and over-sweeten. It's fun for the first little while, but pretty soon > you'll say Yuck! and quit going there.
And Apple claimed that it removed the 500px app because of nudity: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/apple-removes-500px-photo-app-app-store-nudity/story?id=18294183 In reality, someone at Apple was just overcome by a severe case of good taste. > -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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.
