Quote Originally Posted by Matt K. View Post
I appreciate your comment, MA. Without it one just goes on and on not taking aim at improvement. Yes, I too come across images that have an instant appeal and blow me away, and then others leave me strikingly cold. Would be interesting to know why you did not find this appealing. Is it the fact that it was heavily photoshopped, it's composition, it's colours, or it's total lack of interest?
I should have taken more time and given you that answer Matt. Sorry about that. Was a bit rushed for time.
Definitely the processing that has taken this beyond being a photograph and into what we are calling 'Artography' around here (JumpinJimmyJava coined the phrase I think?) immediately turned me off this one. It looks like there is another cool play with lighting but any greatness in photography has been hidden by the PP.

I enjoy post processing very much and I'm not one of those purists that avoid commenting or enjoying photos because they aren't straight out of camera or close to it. I enjoy those shots very much as well.
But in the end I much prefer images to be instantly, and usually in-arguably, a photo.