Silence
by heida

Comment:

Originally posted by Nazgul: ok djtj1980 show an example how you take a below average photo and turn it in to an excellent one!

The picture that comes to mind is no longer available here at dpc... Only the excellent one is. I'm talking about the June free study vinner.

The Silence picture is more a photo manipulation than a photo in my mind.
And how can a marineblue picture win the color purple challenge?! Parts of the fabric is Purple-ish I admit. Other parts is not(in my eyes on my monitor).
With this level of photo manipulation why not just shoot a grey cloth, select it and tweek it into purple?

If you take this further why not take a photo, turn it into b/w, send it to a graphic artist of choice and let him/her paint it in pretty colors in Photoshop or Painter?

Is this what we want? Is this really in the spirit of this photography contest?