>>3653077Well, okay, you can see many examples of people using "artistic" color grades, as u put it, on flickr or facebook for example.
That doesn't mean its good. It certainly doesn't mean that those filters are "artistic" or "meaningful" in any way. Typically you can see people apply vibrant color grades to terrible everyday snapshits. It's as if it's a way to make up for the shitty composition in the photo. But it will never do that.
All photos in this thread are unnotable snaps. Applying a vibrant filter won't make them any more interesting, or noteworthy, but worse. Applying a strong filter is as easy as you said, its not art.
You need to start out with a decent picture in your camera (that has a clear subject, a story to tell, a visual arc) in order to be able to make it better. Once you've taken such a pic, you can edit it to your liking. But I think what you'll find is that once you have a really good pic that you're proud of, you will not want to edit it very much. Maybe you'd up the contrast, or apply a slight tint, or maybe pop the clarity or saturation a little bit. But you'll easily notice that the harsher you edit the image globally, the worse that picture might become. Why? Because it was a great image to begin with.
