Are Your Post Processing Techniques Out of Fashion?

Thank you for listening to episode 28 of The Photo Flunky Show.

Post processing techniques are as much a part of your art as your photography.

We've heard that good artists copy and great artists steal. That may be true, but I think there's something else to consider.

Like all art, there are trends and styles. They come and they go.

If you're on the tail end of copying or stealing, your art just doesn't have the same impact as something original or new. Post processing techniques are like fashion. Some are timeless and others are past their prime.

In this episode, Lee and I discuss some of the post processing techniques we think it's time to stop using. Are we wrong, or are there some post processing techniques you'd like to add to the list.  Please let us know in the comments.

 

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Transcript

 

THE PHOTO FLUNKY SHOW:  Episode 28

 

Welcome to the Photo Flunky Show, Episode number twenty-eight.

 

Our topic for today: Post Processing Techniques Whose Time Has Passed.

 

William:   Hi!  Thanks for joining us on the Photo Flunky Show.  My name is William Beem.

 

Lee:         Hi, I’m Lee.

 

William:   Today we’re going to be talking about post processing techniques whose time has passed; things that were once interesting and unique and now have perhaps been a little overdone.

 

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Let’s get into it.  Post processing techniques whose time has passed.

 

There are post processing techniques – things that people have been doing for a while because they have seen someone else has done it and it really looked great.  It was very creative the first time you saw some of these things and now we’ve seen enough of them and it’s kind of time to move on and do something different.  And we’ll start off with a perennial favorite for things that people love to hate and that is selective color.

 

Lee:         Oooh, yeah!

 

Do you know, the first time I saw it, it really caught my attention.