Comments on: Joseph Watts Shoots Tom Anderson

By: Jim Milne

Jim Milne — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:05:09 +0000

I totally agree with Lee on this. The photographer may well have just wanted to leave it as it was on the day. But the client could have just as easily said he wanted a sky.

Besides as long as it’s not tacky and sloppily processed then it doesn’t matter.

Think about it from the art perspective, a painter painting a scene could have had a building in it originally in reality but the painter thought this would ruin the final image, so the painter omitted it.

Does that make sense?

End of the day, the more compelling it is the more work you’ll get.

By: Lee Morris

Lee Morris — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:07:44 +0000

I can say from experience that dropping in fake backgrounds has little to do with creating a successful image. If it were that easy everyone would do it.

As a professional photographer I say do whatever you have to do to create a compelling image. YOUR skies may be blown out; my skies are going to look like whatever makes me the most money and what books me the next job.

By: badjon

badjon — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:17:46 +0000

yeah..not a cloud in the sky before hand..plus his lights are totally in the shot…thank god for photoshop!

By: Fiaso Froszen

Fiaso Froszen — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:22:21 +0000

I think anything can look good when you drop fake skies in PS.