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Pamela K
 

Category Clarification: Special Effects


In the photo contest, isn't "Digital Darkroom" for digitally created effects and "Special Effects" for more traditionally created effects? When I was looking through "Special Effects," I was seeing a lot of things that looked digital. Is there a way to sort out the digital effects from the traditional effects? I'm trying to learn new camera techniques and wanted to see some samples with explanations.

Pam


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August 05, 2004

 
- Gregory LaGrange

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  contest page, lower right click on catergorization and look at some examples they have there under the special effects category


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August 05, 2004

 

Pamela K
  Thanks Gregory.

None of those pictures really describes how they did it though. Are they all traditional manipulation methods (or non-digital manipulations, anyway)?

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August 05, 2004

 
- Gregory LaGrange

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  not every picture is like that. That red car isn't. They're just trying to give you a general idea anyway. They tell you zoom during exposure, paint with light, polaroid transfer.
The digital darkroom is for green skies and the swirl thing so many people keep doing. I knew that was going to cause confusion.
But regular filters, exposure length experiments, something done by hand, or real life double exposures. That's what they meant by special effects. Some of those are self explanatory. The others you can look up in a book store.


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August 05, 2004

 

Pamela K
  Thanks again.

Pam


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August 05, 2004

 

Cassie Guidetti
  hi im new to this site and kind of new to photography and I was wondering if anyone can give me some help on developing my own pictures (non-digital)


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