These days everyone has a camera and post-processing software. This has encouraged some to think they have all the tools required to launch a photography business. Hilarious results are collected at You Are Not a Photographer. While anyone who aspires to be a professional has to go through a period of producing poor images, they must be prepared, when claiming to be professional, to compare their skills and products with those already established as such. Taking a shot at them here doesn't seem at all unfair.
Many of the worst examples feature poorly applied post-processing tools. One that figures prominently in YANAP's collection is the selective color tool. Other offenders are excessive airbrushing, multiple exposure and cut-out. Occasionally, though, you run across a photo that in terms of subject might seem a bit odd, but is otherwise a good photo. Like this one of a redneck birthday party. The subject is well-framed and in-focus, the color looks natural and not oversaturated, and the baby's expression is dramatic. What's not to like about this photo?
Many of the worst examples feature poorly applied post-processing tools. One that figures prominently in YANAP's collection is the selective color tool. Other offenders are excessive airbrushing, multiple exposure and cut-out. Occasionally, though, you run across a photo that in terms of subject might seem a bit odd, but is otherwise a good photo. Like this one of a redneck birthday party. The subject is well-framed and in-focus, the color looks natural and not oversaturated, and the baby's expression is dramatic. What's not to like about this photo?
And then there are the ones that are so bad, they're good, like the photo at the top of this post, which puts me in mind of a 1960's science-fiction magazine photo. Is that perhaps one of the Mrs L Ron Hubbards?
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