Can someone debunk this Peter Lik picture... PLEASE!!!

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thepancakeman said:
sailingsilkeborg said:
If this is what one goes through to get an exceptional photo, I can only guess how Moses' post-climb writeup would have read, after he had seen the burning bush and heard the voice of God.

Yeah, but can you imagine if he'd gotten a picture?? ;D

I heard that he did have a photo, but shot jpeg, lost some highlight detail, and was too embarrassed to show it.
 
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Jackie Chansky said:
Peter Lik is NOT A LIAR and this picture proves it!
I dunno, technically wouldn't that picture mean he's actually done a lot of editing, what with the colours/adding things in?

Plus, one true picture doesn't actually mean that he doesn't doctor any images at all.
 
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D.Sim said:
Jackie Chansky said:
Peter Lik is NOT A LIAR and this picture proves it!
I dunno, technically wouldn't that picture mean he's actually done a lot of editing, what with the colours/adding things in?

Plus, one true picture doesn't actually mean that he doesn't doctor any images at all.


The upper pic is from Lik, the lower pic is from Rodney Lough - Lik's heavy handedness is too overwhelming IMHO.
 
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Who gives a flying f%&K whether he doctors, manipulates, combines or blends frames to come up with his shots? I certainly don't. You either like his stuff or you don't. You like the guy or you don't.
With all due respect some of the posters on this thread need to get out more / take more photographs / be more personally creative / get a girlfriend (delete as applicable).
...and don't bother to vote this post down, I used a trashmail address to set up a new account so as not to have some highly offended wan*er tryign to damage my karma.
Just my 2 cents worth. Have a nice day and take some images.
 
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Picsfor said:
http://500px.com/photo/4751162?from=popular

Just to muddy the water - have a look at the picture in the link above?

A moon with clouds?

Nice pic - but not a photograph!
Ha, that's excellent. The only way to get the stars to blur like that would be a much longer exposure, not 1/250th of a second. Or, you could shake the camera, but, then the moon wouldn't be so crisp. The birds in front of the moon are just that step too far for me...
 
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"Who gives a flying f%&K whether he doctors, manipulates, combines or blends frames to come up with his shots? I certainly don't. You either like his stuff or you don't. You like the guy or you don't.
With all due respect some of the posters on this thread need to get out more / take more photographs / be more personally creative / get a girlfriend (delete as applicable)."

Once again, the issue isn't manipulation of the image, post-processing or any of those things. Listen carefully: many people believe that if you're going to write up a breathless epiphany about what you did to capture a photo, it ought to contain some semblance of the truth about what you did to capture the photo. The problem here isn't manipulation of the image or images, it's the disingenuous description that seems clearly to be designed to create the false impression that the image consists of one click, one photo. Several dozen posters have rather convincingly described why that cannot be so.

I'm quite OK with the notion that if you choose to talk, what you say ought to be true. Whoever pointed out the difference between declaring you're the King of England, vs. merely taking a photo of yourself wearing a crown, made the point quite well. And I don't think I need to be a professional (which I'm not) to have the right to an opinion about the need for some basic integrity, even among obvious self-promoters.
 
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