{"id":168,"date":"2007-09-25T13:43:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T17:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/09\/25\/wow\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T13:43:08","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T17:43:08","slug":"wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/09\/25\/wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photo.net\/photos\/rarindra\">These photos<\/a> are some of the most amazing things I&#8217;ve ever seen. And I&#8217;ve seen a lot of amazing photos.<\/p>\n<p>As you look at more and more, you realize that there&#8217;s clearly heavy post-processing being done, e.g., Photoshopping details in, and generally doing more than just &#8216;fixing&#8217; things up a little. (Some clearly get a bit <a href=\"http:\/\/photo.net\/photodb\/photo?photo_id=5768569\">unnatural<\/a>, but most are realistic, just too consistently <em>perfect<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s spurned a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.dpreview.com\/forums\/read.asp?forum=1019&#038;message=24948100\">debate<\/a> on the DPReview forums about how far is too far. And I think I&#8217;ve changed my tune a bit: you can go as far as you want, it&#8217;s just that at some point your cross over from &#8220;Wow, you really brought out the details in that shot&#8221; to &#8220;Wow, you <em>manufactured<\/em> a great image!&#8221; But then there&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/photo.net\/photodb\/photo?photo_id=6205312\">in-between<\/a>, where you can&#8217;t quite be sure how much was manufactured and how much was just an amazing shot.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, you owe it to yourself to check out the photos. And maybe book a spot on the next flight to Java.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These photos are some of the most amazing things I&#8217;ve ever seen. And I&#8217;ve seen a lot of amazing photos. As you look at more and more, you realize that there&#8217;s clearly heavy post-processing being done, e.g., Photoshopping details in, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/09\/25\/wow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,20,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-links","category-interesting","category-photography","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}