Tweeted this but I delete my tweets so I am putting it here:
New to computational photography. It does feel different than previous photography. Initial attempts to describe it are artificial, processed, digital. As if the image is built from layers back to front rather than capturing light through a lens.
Photo of mountains out the window of a plane with the plane wing visible.
The photo looks good: high resolution, rich colors, dynamic range. It also feels processed, as if the image was built layer by layer back to front, and the wing was identified as distinct and made into its own layer. I appreciate the impact this processing can have on future edits. But looking at the photo it feels off, as if it did not capture a flat file but has put forward a top view of a layered image. As if a centrifuge spun the depths of the lens’ focus and the separated densities are presented as one.
It’s the wing, the wing feels fake. As if the processor recognized the wing as a plane wing, and made it its own layer, saving a potential editor the need to mask out the wing and make it its own layer to edit. Looking at the photo, presented here with no edits, my initial thought was that the wing looks fake, and poorly layered onto the photograph.