Enrique Iglesias in Concert

[Nikonfreak]

Here's one I did not too long ago.

Enrique loves to get into the crowd. This was from the press box.

Julio

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[PierreB]

Interesting shot, but I really do not dig the selective colouring. Why did you chose to do that?

Also, slightly cropping the top would put more emphasis on the crowd that was there

[Nikonfreak]

Originally Posted by PierreB

Interesting shot, but I really do not dig the selective colouring. Why did you chose to do that?

Also, slightly cropping the top would put more emphasis on the crowd that was there

Because in it's original color, you have to search the image to find the artist as he was mingling in the crowd at the time.

There was no real way of photographically separating the subject from the background, so this is a neat way of isolating the focal point in post.

Yes, I could crop it and thought of doing so, but I kind of liked the greater area of black and white so I left it.

[Synthetic]

I like it!

[digital buddah]

Julio,

Very nice, I like it......

[dwightmccann]

I sorta' side with Pierre ... since I shoot concerts as a photojournalist and documentarian I can't submit work with selective alterations and it makes me a bit queasy to see this sort of alteration ... it's like adding a vignetting. But if it makes the beholder happy, then that's the goal.

[Nikonfreak]

Originally Posted by dwightmccann

I sorta' side with Pierre ... since I shoot concerts as a photojournalist and documentarian I can't submit work with selective alterations and it makes me a bit queasy to see this sort of alteration ... it's like adding a vignetting. But if it makes the beholder happy, then that's the goal.

Been there, done that.

I take it that no one ever edits, clips, cuts or selectively crop your images for publication. You are one lucky guy. If only I were to ever get that lucky.

Have you picked up a magazine lately? I know those images are straight out of the camera.

LoL, yes been there, done that ...

[dwightmccann]

Oddly, most of my images hit publication untouched although I am clear I have no objections to modifications ... just that I will always submit images with only WB, crop, exposure and similar adjustments but no cloning or image combining without an explicit explanation which I include in the IPTC data. I once had a presentation check (one of those big cardboard kind) in an image that was hit by a spotlight and totally blown out that was going to news media and I decided to cut & paste the check from another frame (I always bracket that sort of event) so I talked with the photo editors and were very appreciative that I had advised them and ran the image. I have had a couple of dozen of boxing images used by everyone from HBO to ESPN to ShowTime and lots of ezines and they usually seem to be published unchanged. Four images in Engelbert Humperdinck's latest 'Legacy of Love' momento book and they were unmodified. Lots of stuff like that. But so long as I provide unflawed images I don't really mind editing. And I am not obsessive about it ... I have been known to darken a guitar neck sticking into the talent from outside the frame a 1/2 stop ... but it makes me nervous.

[Nikonfreak]

Originally Posted by dwightmccann

Oddly, most of my images hit publication untouched although I am clear I have no objections to modifications ... just that I will always submit images with only WB, crop, exposure and similar adjustments but no cloning or image combining without an explicit explanation which I include in the IPTC data. I once had a presentation check (one of those big cardboard kind) in an image that was hit by a spotlight and totally blown out that was going to news media and I decided to cut & paste the check from another frame (I always bracket that sort of event) so I talked with the photo editors and were very appreciative that I had advised them and ran the image. I have had a couple of dozen of boxing images used by everyone from HBO to ESPN to ShowTime and lots of ezines and they usually seem to be published unchanged. Four images in Engelbert Humperdinck's latest 'Legacy of Love' momento book and they were unmodified. Lots of stuff like that. But so long as I provide unflawed images I don't really mind editing. And I am not obsessive about it ... I have been known to darken a guitar neck sticking into the talent from outside the frame a 1/2 stop ... but it makes me nervous.

Well, this wasn't one of the shots submitted for publication. This was selective editing for fun for me. I do this kind of thing for parents with kids sports and such so I figured why not do it for this... I think it does what it's supposed to... highlight the artist in a sea of people. Wanted to post something different...

I also don't do much photojournalism...and I don't believe there are many purists left out there given the selective editing, selective shooting, selective angles, and then selective cropping, selective omission, selective inclusion, etc.. folks are doing in the photojournalism world these days. That is, if we are using the same definition of a "purist"...

[Canonian]

I agree with that you can't have selective colouring for editorials, they just don't like it. It doesn't look well on print.

We may do that because we like doing selective colouring, but it is either clean b/w or colour and no inbetween. Maybe because the colours may run on the bits what are suppose to be b/w.