Okay, I always (or when I remember...or did) put "upped the colours" at the end of my posted photographs when I post them so people understand. But then I thought to myself just then "maybe people don't really understand what I mean when I say it" so I thought that I'd explain it and also how I feel about colour alterations. Some people believe changing the colour is often photography manipulation so thought I'd share my view.
Now when I say "upped the colours", what I mean is I used one of my photo actions (the one I posted in the icon tutorial I made not long ago). This mainly makes the icon a lot brighter and how I would want it to look if I had a fancy camera with fancy lenses...buuuuttt I don't so I have to do all this in Photoshop instead.
Personally I don't find it as a photo manipulation, it's still the same photo, it's not a huge extreme of the before and after but it creates a great impact of the effect of how the photo looks in the end. It shows the atmosphere, the detailing, everything I can see in person but not when it gets to my computer screen properly. To me photo manip. is mainly altering the photo greatly, changing huge things so it can barely be recognised.
This is an example of me "upping the colours". The first one is a nice photo, but too dark to experience the type of day it truly was when I took that photo. When I took the series of tennis court photos, up there was the sunniest place, heaps of sun, heaps of sky, whole bunch of junk everywhere but it was a bright, clear area to take photos. I hope it is now more understood what "upping the colours" means in case people didn't understand :)
Now when I say "upped the colours", what I mean is I used one of my photo actions (the one I posted in the icon tutorial I made not long ago). This mainly makes the icon a lot brighter and how I would want it to look if I had a fancy camera with fancy lenses...buuuuttt I don't so I have to do all this in Photoshop instead.
Personally I don't find it as a photo manipulation, it's still the same photo, it's not a huge extreme of the before and after but it creates a great impact of the effect of how the photo looks in the end. It shows the atmosphere, the detailing, everything I can see in person but not when it gets to my computer screen properly. To me photo manip. is mainly altering the photo greatly, changing huge things so it can barely be recognised.
This is an example of me "upping the colours". The first one is a nice photo, but too dark to experience the type of day it truly was when I took that photo. When I took the series of tennis court photos, up there was the sunniest place, heaps of sun, heaps of sky, whole bunch of junk everywhere but it was a bright, clear area to take photos. I hope it is now more understood what "upping the colours" means in case people didn't understand :)