Weekly retrospective #36: Photography = WYSIWYG?
Do you expect that you get the same image you saw through your viewfinder?
I'm not sure if it is so. Photography in its main purpose is about image manipulation.
If you shoot with anything else than a 50 mm lens you won't exactly get what a human will see.
Additionally we have two different workflows at the same time. You won't believe?
Okay have a look: First workflow: Object > Eye > Brain > Brain based internal processing
Second workflow: Object > Lens > Sensor > Camera internal software processing.
Both workflows are completely different and at some point (when you look through your viewfinder) the workflows will be shared and may lead into results you won't expect.
You still won't believe? Okay, I'm sure you did some sunsets in your life and with some of them you exactly get aware of the difference of personal impression you have and the final result which will be printed or displayed on the web or computer. Some sunsets you saw have been impressive and lack on the web, not onyl due to the quality. There is something missing: exactly that small kind of difference your own brain add to the scene your camera can't simulate. This is only one example. Some images you shoot get cropped, turned into black & white, processed as a HDR and so on. If you shoot images on a professional or semi-professional base you have some ideas in mind when you go out for footage. And this will lead into a workflow where the final image won't look exactly as the image captured by your camera.
As another quirk, some ideas pop up while you edit the image in PS or in a RAW converter.
Below you find such an example, where I definetely haven't had the final idea in mind when I shot the images. What could that be ... some kind of Hieronymus Bosch picture detail? Nope! These images just have been turned in PS 180° and received some editing. What it is? These are lamp posts which are in front of the Buchheim museum in Bernried at the Lake Starnberg (nearby Munich): http://behnisch.com/projects/42
They look a little bit like some Giger aliens. The bottom has been covered with snow so I turned the images and made something new out of it. Enjoy and be always careful when you look through your viewfinder!
I'm not sure if it is so. Photography in its main purpose is about image manipulation.
If you shoot with anything else than a 50 mm lens you won't exactly get what a human will see.
Additionally we have two different workflows at the same time. You won't believe?
Okay have a look: First workflow: Object > Eye > Brain > Brain based internal processing
Second workflow: Object > Lens > Sensor > Camera internal software processing.
Both workflows are completely different and at some point (when you look through your viewfinder) the workflows will be shared and may lead into results you won't expect.
You still won't believe? Okay, I'm sure you did some sunsets in your life and with some of them you exactly get aware of the difference of personal impression you have and the final result which will be printed or displayed on the web or computer. Some sunsets you saw have been impressive and lack on the web, not onyl due to the quality. There is something missing: exactly that small kind of difference your own brain add to the scene your camera can't simulate. This is only one example. Some images you shoot get cropped, turned into black & white, processed as a HDR and so on. If you shoot images on a professional or semi-professional base you have some ideas in mind when you go out for footage. And this will lead into a workflow where the final image won't look exactly as the image captured by your camera.
As another quirk, some ideas pop up while you edit the image in PS or in a RAW converter.
Below you find such an example, where I definetely haven't had the final idea in mind when I shot the images. What could that be ... some kind of Hieronymus Bosch picture detail? Nope! These images just have been turned in PS 180° and received some editing. What it is? These are lamp posts which are in front of the Buchheim museum in Bernried at the Lake Starnberg (nearby Munich): http://behnisch.com/projects/42
They look a little bit like some Giger aliens. The bottom has been covered with snow so I turned the images and made something new out of it. Enjoy and be always careful when you look through your viewfinder!
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