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Sex and sexuality in art are some of my favorite things, and certainly sometimes arousal is part of this, but more importantly, it is FAR MORE than about simple arousal, as porn is. One of my deviantart friends, :iconcypherthepanicartist: , said that art of a sexual nature can “ provoke thoughts about our dreams, fears, desires, and place in the world"...yes! Well done art that deals with sex exposes the soul of the subject or act in question, not just the naughty bits. I feel that any kind of work on this site that looks at sexuality in a thoughtful or artistic or critical or celebratory, etc. way is certainly appropriate content for an art site, because, of course, this work is actually ART.

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When Photoshop wasn't a household name Vol 2

~bloodred1889:iconbloodred1889: reports, March 14, 2008
In my last article about Photoshop I spoke about people who edit there photographs so much and get thousands of favourites for doing so, great but it seems you have to use Photoshop these days to get any popularity what so ever, in fact if you have a great photo and you say you didn’t Photoshop it, people say your lying.

Surely if you put loads of textures over your image that should be photo manipulation. What does a texture add to a photo? Why do people put them on, other to make the image look pretty? And there is the problem, because it seems these days if your image doesn’t have one, it’s not as pleasing.
Another couple of fashionable things these days and things I see on nearly all the photos I see in the popular sections are:

Vignette, it seems everyone does this to a picture, sometimes its ads to the photo as it draws your eye to the subject, but I’ve seen it on nearly every photo I’ve seen, I’ve also seen it on every photo in peoples galleries. Some people have it as there kind of trade mark which is ok, but it seems it’s a huge trend.
In fact the whole retro thing is a huge trend at the moment, and mostly cross-processing is all the rage.
I can’t tell you how many retro, cross-processing tutorials, actions ect there are on DA, and everyone is doing it.
And it annoys me because in the popular section you will be hard pushed to see a photo that isn’t done in this style. And if you upload a photo that hasn’t got this effect on it, you get comments like, this is abit dull, could be more contrast, its too dark ect ect.
Again is this what we are all destined for, people following each other? To get favs and attention are we going to have to do what everyone else does?
Because if we don’t, people don’t like it, I’ve seen people do different and people seem to be scared of this.

Also the people who are popular, and I mean really popular have there own style, which is great, but everyone who goes to there site feels they have to do whatever that artist did to get popular, thus everyone copies everyone else’s style, and thus everything on DA looks the same.

I myself have got caught up with this craze, I found I really liked the effect and started doing it to a lot of my photos.
Then one day I put the same effect on a photo I did for my college work, I hadn’t really thought about it, I just did it, and I didn’t have a reason why I did it, and when I showed it to my tutor, he asked me what the hell I had done to the photo. He told me the blacks looked washed out and it made the photo look bad. And that’s when I realized I had ruined my photo because my eye was trained to prefer this look. Kind of like when you prefer smash to real mash potato.

The point I’m trying to make is, lets not all be sheep and constantly do the same thing, I can’t be the only person who finds this boring, seeing thousands of photographs the same?
Lets not all rely on textures and effects to make our photos look better.
Let’s love photography for what it is and know the difference between photography and photo manipulation.

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~Quicksilver-Hybrid:iconQuicksilver-Hybrid: Mar 14, 2008, 6:07:02 PM
i agree with you in some stances. however, it's art in every shape and form. who are we to dictate what is and isn't appealing? i agree with the "following of techniques" (i.e. actions, cross-overs etc.) but there are still a majority of photographers who stick to pure, untouched photography.

and it's just what you said; there's photography, and photomanipulation. what does a texture add to a photo? ask the artist.

yet another poignant article. kudos.


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~lAliusl:iconlAliusl: Mar 14, 2008, 6:21:10 PM
When I set up a shoot I have only one goal, to create art, something beautiful, unique, thought provoking or just pleasing.

To me it doesn't matter how the end product was reached as longs as it provokes some kind of emotion, preferably awe ;)
=scuzzo:iconscuzzo: Mar 14, 2008, 7:14:48 PM
I agree in part with you. I do vintage images very often, the only difference is I don't use photos, I make my textures and I try to be original. I got works rejected from vintage/retro clubs because they apparently prefer to fill their galleries with faded photos than with original-done-from-scratch works. Regarding the popular people, I've seen deviants who have like 13,000 watchers so no matter what they upload you can rest assured it will be displayed on the "popular" section of DA's homepage for like 3 days thus becoming even more popular... it sucks but that's the way things are.
~accostedllama:iconaccostedllama: Mar 14, 2008, 8:09:09 PM
hey, i haven't even learned PS yet, so i am happy without it so far. i am going to school in the fall for PS and illustrator, but just for the skills in the business world. as for people using it, i have gotten the distinct feeling that people use it as a crutch sometimes, and don't know what things are like without it. i agree pretty much with all of this article.
~mefy:iconmefy: Mar 15, 2008, 2:27:38 AM
thanks fot the link to this, it's very wise :)
and you made great point, by saying "my eyes were trained to see"... yeah, if we see everywhere manipulated photos with lots of favs, we start to think, that ours are bad, because they don't have so much favs, comments, and they look dull. it's awful. i miss the times when cameras were analogues, and to make picture looks interesting one had to really try at first to do the good picture and then maybe mix something with developing.

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~mnphoto:iconmnphoto: Mar 15, 2008, 4:22:18 AM
You are so right.
I feel some attacked too, cos [of course] I do also have some manipulatied works in my Gallery.
But well, I really love vignetting. But it doesn't fit to every photo. I tried, whether I get it work too. And I did. But I really had the opinion that Photos should not be manipullated AND tagged as "Photography"
I'm keeping it true. :D
Better: I try to ~


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~Yuuiki:iconYuuiki: Mar 15, 2008, 6:43:27 AM
Your articles on this issue is interesting and true. Most people do have their eyes trained to look at certain things in their own way. I get bored of things too easily so I really love the photographs and artworks in very different styles and sometimes looking at the things that look so similar on DA is a letdown.
Untouched photography usually leaves a much stronger impact to me than the photoshopped photos.

Another great article <3

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~mbamboo:iconmbamboo: Mar 15, 2008, 7:24:10 AM
Thanks for the information, I read your new article with pleasure :)

You're so right, I totally agree with your opinion. I feel a little strange, because I've got some manipulated (with somebody's actions, bruses and tutorials, cause I can't do many things by myself, I'm still learning using PS) work in my gallery, but I try to do something new, not the next copy of populars' work. I really don't understand, why people don't want to express yourself, try new things, create their own style.
Many people probably won't agree with you, but I support these articles. And I really like my non-edited photos.

Have a nice weekend! :)

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=Rickbw1:iconRickbw1: Mar 15, 2008, 8:13:26 AM
Your article is definitely with merit. But there is nothing new to this so called trend except it took place in the dark room. The use of filters. You have already answered your question ... one you have to know why your doing it ... and b you will never ever be able to dictate the taste of the public ... it is either they like it or they don't.... anything else save for and academeic lecture of for pure afficianados

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~xxxrockxxonxxx:iconxxxrockxxonxxx: Mar 15, 2008, 8:17:00 AM
This was very well put. I agree with you completely in a certain sense. Everyone is using Photoshop these days, and sometimes it does ruin the picture. To me, non-edited photos show how much of an excellent photographer that person is. Nice article.

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