TTLKurtis wrote:
So would you say that you have never, ever said anything bad about somebody without saying it directly to them?
Of course not. But not in a public forum with direct links to their website. If you google their name + blog this thread is already indexing pretty high. Pretty shitty for them not even being aware of this thread.
Mitch W wrote:
If we were brides on a wedding site then I could see a conversation happening about the virtues of one photographer over another, a valuable process being used to select their wedding photographer. There would be recommendations made as well as possibly poor reviews. This is similar to your dual strap analogy.
But what we have here in this thread is more akin to spider holster going on a widely read industry blog and bashing dual straps behind their back. It has a feeling of pettiness and sour grapes.
Good point.
You win.
In my defense the only reason I even mentioned the weird processing on the album is that I thought the photography was great. Had I thought they sucked I would never have commented of the processing on the album.
Mitch W wrote:
Pretty shitty for them not even being aware of this thread.
Call 'em up. Invite them to participate in the conversation.
Personally, I don't think their target audience will be cruising here. If they do, given who I think they're targeting, it will only reinforce their interest in the group.
and I dunno... I mean it kind of looks to me like someone just discovered low contrast and lightroom's "you can add color with me" gradient filters.... lots of those directional gradients all over the book.
Oh and +1 to what Sergio said re: the writing.
I don't like this album. Trendy, cool, neat, different, but will look like shit in a couple years.
If you look at the bottom of their FAQ page, there is this:
ETC.
on average an 8 hour wedding will yield around 600-700 images.
we color correct all images.
we edit/process around 100 of our favorites.
and however many extra are chosen for albums.
The work seemed pretty good, trendy and hip. I enjoyed the third year art school center justified, all lower case paragraphs. I'm having a flashback, I can almost smell the clove cigarettes.
Yeah, it's processed. No digital camera I know of shoots like that SOOC.
Clip the blacks, bump up midtones for greys, bring whites down to greyish a bit <- that can be done in a curves layer. If you want to get fancy about it, you can luminosity mask and stuff to only affect certain tones the way you want to.
The colour ones have a similar thing going on, just not as intense on the highlight side and probably a colour filter layer at low opacity as well.
