From: Grimly Curmudgeon on
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8314105.stm
Holy shite. What a mess.
From: R on

"Grimly Curmudgeon" <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in message
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8314105.stm
> Holy shite. What a mess.

Photoshop?


From: Grimly Curmudgeon on
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "R" <no_one(a)nowhere.tv> saying
something like:

>
>"Grimly Curmudgeon" <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in message
>news:675qd5dd1j3ubvee38vhutl414ffr65l4p(a)4ax.com...
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8314105.stm
>> Holy shite. What a mess.
>
>Photoshop?

Yep. Most of them have been affected/inflicted by the current craze for
sliding the saturation lever too far and also doing HDR in excess.
Bloody awful.
From: Simes on
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:50:23 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember "R" <no_one(a)nowhere.tv> saying
> something like:
>
>
>>"Grimly Curmudgeon" <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:675qd5dd1j3ubvee38vhutl414ffr65l4p(a)4ax.com...
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8314105.stm Holy shite. What a
>>> mess.
>>
>>Photoshop?
>
> Yep. Most of them have been affected/inflicted by the current craze for
> sliding the saturation lever too far and also doing HDR in excess.
> Bloody awful.

It's the current trend old bean. HDR can look good in certain
circumstances - but mostly it makes the photo look like a CGI image and
not real at all.
From: CT on
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8314105.stm
> Holy shite. What a mess.

I don't know what HDR stands for, but I looked at those yesterday and
realised sometihng wasn't quite right.

There should be a limit on post-processing, or the amount should
notified to inform the casual viewer.

--
Chris