Comments on: Crater Lake in Oregon

By: Recreate Your Photographs Using Text

Recreate Your Photographs Using Text — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:45:33 +0000

[...] drag and drop a photograph from your computer onto the page to get started. The image above is a photograph of Crater Lake that we turned into text using the letters from [...]

By: Useful Tool for Looking Up the EXIF Data of Online Photographs

Useful Tool for Looking Up the EXIF Data of Online Photographs — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:58:18 +0000

[...] Here’s a useful tool you might want to bookmark: findexif.com. It has a super simple web interface in which you simply paste a URL to a photograph in order to display the EXIF data embedded in the image. It should work for any photograph that hasn’t had the EXIF stripped out for some reason, and can be a great way for you to learn how certain images were made. Here’s an example page showing the EXIF data of a photograph I made a while back. [...]

By: Michael Zhang

Michael Zhang — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:06:07 +0000

Just updated the walkthrough with blues saturation -10.

By: Michael Zhang

Michael Zhang — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:40:23 +0000

Hi Alain,

Thanks for your suggestion! I think in real life the color of the water is pretty striking, and something the lake is known for, but I'll try tweaking the colors a little more.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&sa=1...

By: alain

alain — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:21:25 +0000

I like the end result but the water is just too blueish. It does not look natural. I would step down a little bit and I think it would achieve the desired result.
The same thing happen to me when I spend too much time in front of a picture: the more you look at it, the more you get used to the color and you lose any references. That is why I always wait until the next day to complete the post processing of my pictures, or I ask the wife what she thinks…

By: Michael Zhang

Michael Zhang — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:48:59 +0000

Hey Dylan,

I'm not sure what is considered acceptable. If I were a photojournalist, I'm sure cloning and modifying a photograph wouldn't be considered acceptable. I think I read somewhere that they can do as much to a digital photo as one could do to a film photo in a darkroom (though you can do some pretty strange things in a darkroom).

For me, I just shoot for myself, so I guess I have a different standard for what's acceptable and what's not. The goal is just to show what can be done and how it's done. :-)

Thanks for the comment!

By: DylanH

DylanH — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:40:48 +0000

Great tutorial, really helpful for understanding post processing for beginners like myself.
One thing I was wondering: What is the acceptable amount of post by and large among photographers, or does it vary widely? Since I kind of feel like clone stamping a tree out would be like cheating a photo, but maybe that's normal? Great blog by the way, glad I found it, good photo too.

By: Michael Zhang

Michael Zhang — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:06:07 +0000

Just updated the walkthrough with blues saturation -10.

By: Michael Zhang

Michael Zhang — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:40:23 +0000

By: alain

alain — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:21:25 +0000