PING: PeterN Some NatGeo Birdies

http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/30/the-art-of-birds-revealed-through-an-altered-reality/?


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Regards,

Savageduck

On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:55:47 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/30/the-art-of-birds-revealed-through-an-altered-reality/?

To me, technically stunning, but as art, they leave me cold, in much
the same way overdone HDR does. I'm interested in what everyone else
thinks.

On 2015-07-12 18:15:43 +0000, Bill W said:

On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:55:47 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/30/the-art-of-birds-revealed-through-an-altered-reality/?

To

me, technically stunning, but as art, they leave me cold, in much
the same way overdone HDR does. I'm interested in what everyone else
thinks.

I don't think she was trying for photographic reality. To start with
she says that the birds are rescaled and the backgrounds are not the
actual one found in the original captures. So the final images are
actually bird-background composites.

I find the final results to be very much in the Audubon, style and as
such are more art created through technical expertise than pure
photography. Since they are more of an interpretation than reality, my
vote goes towards art.
....and as usual, art is in the eye of the beholder.

From a birders point of view they are too stylized to make for good
field guide images. Those birds just don't look like that in the wild.
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Regards,

Savageduck

On 7/12/2015 1:55 PM, Savageduck wrote:
http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/30/the-art-of-birds-revealed-through-an-altered-reality/?




Wow:
Those images give me some thought as to what I can do with some of my
own bird images.
Also, they answer the old question, whether photography is an art or a
craft. The answer I see is both.
Thanks for posting.


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PeterN

On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:55:47 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/30/the-art-of-birds-revealed-through-an-altered-reality/?

I like them!

Very clever. Very well done.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 7/12/2015 2:35 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2015-07-12 18:15:43 +0000, Bill W said:

On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:55:47 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/30/the-art-of-birds-revealed-through-an-altered-reality/?


To

me, technically stunning, but as art, they leave me cold, in much
the same way overdone HDR does. I'm interested in what everyone else
thinks.

I don't think she was trying for photographic reality. To start with she
says that the birds are rescaled and the backgrounds are not the actual
one found in the original captures. So the final images are actually
bird-background composites.

I find the final results to be very much in the Audubon, style and as
such are more art created through technical expertise than pure
photography. Since they are more of an interpretation than reality, my
vote goes towards art.
...and as usual, art is in the eye of the beholder.

From a birders point of view they are too stylized to make for good
field guide images. Those birds just don't look like that in the wild.

If yoiu catch them in breeding plumage and get the lighting right, a lot
of them do.



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PeterN