| Photoshop Koi Competition.
So its true some dudes photoshop their koi photos.
Here is an example photoshopped to the extreme.
The koi in the first pic is one I photographed at the last all japan koi show, which I visited this year. The second one is a watermellon, which we plant for fun at the EmeraldKoi farm.
The third pic took me 30 hrs to photoshop from the first two, plus another of my daughter wielding the knike.
I won a second prize for it in our annual provincial photo competition, in the digitally modified section. Good clean fun, but the trick is not to photoshop the real koi pics you send to your friends, else you get wet and cold when they come all the way out to your pond to see the yellow and red kohkugon you said you bred last year.
As I enjoy digital photography and do fiddle a bit with photoshop, I do notice that some (a good few) of the magazine pics are photoshopped! Thats not cricket in my mind. Shame, one kohaku I saw in a magazine had no scales left in most of the hi, and it looked a bit two dimensional and had lost the natural reflections that appeared on some of the white areas. Mind you, the pattern was awesome. Or was it?
I have a friend who taught me something. He sais "believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see".
I guess if you are like me and read koi magazines it should be 10% of what you see?
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09-05-2006
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