DDA - Dramatic Digital Alterations

OakleyOakley Registered Users Posts: 446 Major grins
edited September 7, 2005 in Holy Macro
Just wondering how many of you perform DDA's (Dramatic Digital Alterations) on your photos?

I'm finding that it's a good tool to make an "ok" shot really stand out. But it feels like cheating, you know?

Anyway...here are some DDA examples...

This is "Colored Pencil"....
35000985-M.jpg

This is "Film Grain?".....Look Closely...
35000988-M.jpg

And this is just a plain ol negative.
35002856-M.jpg

Any thoughts?
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Comments

  • behr655behr655 Registered Users Posts: 552 Major grins
    edited September 6, 2005
    Nice!

    I find I can turn some ho-hummers into some nice pictures using heavy processing.

    Bear
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  • DachDach Registered Users Posts: 16 Big grins
    edited September 7, 2005
    I'm all for Photoshopping
    Oakley wrote:
    Just wondering how many of you perform DDA's (Dramatic Digital Alterations) on your photos?
    I gotta love how Photoshop can turn an ordinary photo into something spectacular. I have a few examples in my galleries, like this one:
    1110468-M-1.jpg
    or this one:
    1110491-M-1.jpg
    I have a few others if you poke around. My point is, it's not cheating; it's art. You still have to take a reasonably good picture to begin with, and then make alterations that don't screw it up, like this (definitely not my best work:
    1283445-M-1.jpg
    Däch
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