Another fake foliage pic from a big influencerTwombls OP t1_iuwdbfg wrote
Wow does complex have a ton of alt accounts on reddit or something. Really getting a lot of people here mad that I called out an obviously fake photo lol.
Jerry_Williams69 t1_iuwdpna wrote
Lol probably
raptor3x t1_iuwt5f9 wrote
It's absolutely overly post-processed and looks dumb, but your claims that things are outright faked is just wrong and shows you have little understanding of photo post-processing.
Twombls OP t1_iuwtwky wrote
looks totally real to me. I like how even the long dead tree thats fallen in the water with no leaves is red.
raptor3x t1_iuwv4yk wrote
What you're seeing is a combination of color bleeding due to aggressive color noise reduction and a hue shift due to how the color saturation was exaggerated. In the raw image data you get a lot of colored speckling called chroma noise and the more you do to reduce this the more colors from adjacent objects will bleed into each other. This is especially apparent when dealing with tightly packed relatively colorful objects like foliage. Red hues from leaves from one tree will bleed into the bark of an adjacent tree or the water near the trees. The other issue is that when you see a bare tree that is "brown" it's not represented simply as brown in the data, but as a superposition of the color channels. When you exaggerate the oranges and reds in order to makes to leaves look better, you'll also distort other colors like browns and if you have areas that were already pretty intense they can end up getting blown out in one of the color channels. The sample you provided there certainly looks like it was done by someone in the "HDR hole" stage of photo post-processing but there's no signs of actual manipulation other than going nuts with saturation sliders.
seekingbeta t1_iuyzukp wrote
Actually, the post-processing tool he used is called a paintbrush. It’s used to apply colors on top of the image that aren’t naturally present. You can tell by looking at the lazy paintbrush strokes he used, like on the red tree in the water and on the bigger green patch at the bottom center of the frame - funny how only the top half of that green tree has a stroke of orange color and the bottom half doesn’t yet the whole tree is surrounded by orange leaves. I guess you’ll agree this is not the artifact of color bleeding or blown out colors.
raptor3x t1_iuz944r wrote
This thread is freaking hilarious. So many people who clearly have no clue what they're talking about being so damned confident. It's absolutely shitty post-processing, like I said it's reminiscent of the "HDR-hole", but there's nowhere the guy painted in color. If you had any experience with photo post-processing it would be painfully obvious what actually happened but please continue basking in your ignorance.
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Twombls OP t1_iuwesz0 wrote
Explain why the photo seems to be making evergreen trees go through foliage then.
Eagle_Arm t1_iuwf5bn wrote
Get your reasoning out of here! Conifers totally change color like that in the Fall.....
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Eagle_Arm t1_iuwl3qu wrote
With the addition of all those orange pine trees! Haha. Is this your photo? Is that why you're so defensive about it?
Way more than 5 conifers as well. Are you just trying to troll at this point or do you seriously think this photo isn't heavily edited?
Twombls OP t1_iuwmrie wrote
Yeah like heres a picture I found on insta with a lot less coloring and filtering . Notice how there is wayyy more green in it. And all the vegetation on the cliffs is green.
rivunel t1_iuwjjhr wrote
Lol look just a little closer.
Twombls OP t1_iuwjnjw wrote
Look at the comifers on the lake edge
thunder-cricket t1_iuwewt5 wrote
It's a stupid post. you're acting like the fucking picture with a little filtering is taken from the new Avatar movie. But, anyway, everyone who disagrees with you about it is getting downvoted to hell. So stop bitching and enjoy your dumb post's popularity. It found its way to my reddit homepage or I wouldn't have even noticed it.
Twombls OP t1_iuwfxja wrote
Yeah but im wondering what particularly about this is making people get so angery lol.
Lmaoooo ninja edit to make it look like I agree with you
thunder-cricket t1_iuwjy7l wrote
I disagree with your assessment of how fake the photo looks. I'm not angry about that. But now I'm angry at how self-righteous the people who agree with you are about it here, and I'm angry it's turned into another we hate tourists post. I'm also mildly annoyed now that I'm sucked into this stupid bullshit because this dumb ass post was so popular it found its way into my home page. But that last one is on me.
I don't know what you mean by 'ninja edit' to make it look like you agree with me. I know you don't agree with me and nothing about my post suggests you do.
MarketplaceMallBTV t1_iuwn5dn wrote
Bro is the filter fanatic. Bro is the saturation Sargent. Bro is the contrast commander. Take a breather and calm down.
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