When too much is too much?

It's within yourself. When your editing/retouching your in control you do what you want but more importantly you stop where you think you've done the best for the photo. So the sky may be the limit on one shot and on another you may barely get off the ground. But if you don't know a technique (no matter how extreme) you can't use appropiately or not.

How much is too much? When the client refuses to pay the hours.....
That's when you stop.

Dennis_Hammer wrote in post #9290624
It's within yourself. When your editing/retouching your in control you do what you want but more importantly you stop where you think you've done the best for the photo. So the sky may be the limit on one shot and on another you may barely get off the ground. But if you don't know a technique (no matter how extreme) you can't use appropiately or not.

Or this, nicely summed up completely by Dennis.

Depends on your purposes.

It's purely personal taste.

If I process the heck out of my photos, and you don't like it, that's okay.

You do yours the way you want, I'll do mine how I want.

Then let's have a beer!

ArtphotoasiA wrote in post #9292137
Thanks for the reply...

My 2 cents are:

1) photography is a point of view of reality.... it is what you intend to show... it can be very artistic of course.... it is not just reality....

2) heavily manipulated images with art intention..... something like ''surrealism'' mixing real and not real.... ok..... I consider that Art for sure but different from strict photography...

3) what make me mad and I do not consider Art is this.... is what i posted today in the blog........

:p

I don't see how you can declare it "art" or "not art" if you don't know their purposes. The most you can say is, "It's not my cup of tea."

As far as I can see, the top and bottom videos were merely demonstrations of what can be done, serving no other purpose than that...and serving that purpose very well. Not a lot different from those absurd dresses from haute couture fashion designers that nobody is intended to actually wear on the street.

The middle video IMO were a series of artistic interpretations of the subjects. Ever notice that none of the old classical portraits show any cowpox scars?