Aerial Photographs of the UK, Hundreds of them; and Bird's-eye View of Trees

[zxwings]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

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You have to remember that the camera shots are enhanced to give a enriched foliage look to the ground and sky for that matter.

I took this shot up the Pyrenees (French Side) and gave it some adjustments in PS4 to make it look "richer"
although its a great looking view in real life the enhancement is false as in most of the above shots.

What we see with the MkI eyeball and our brain interprets is different from a cameras image
so we enhance it to make it look better to compensate for the original impression we felt or think it should look like.




Anyway were not flying a scenery simulator, but the feel of CoD at certain times of day is pretty good compared to anything else I've seen.

Yes you are right about photography's difference from scenes in real life. Actually I myself had added a note of this at first, "Although what a photograph shows us (i.e. what the camera tells us) is not exactly the same thing as what we see with the naked eye, but..."; at last however I deleted it, thinking that saying it would require lots of explanation. Now, here is the explanation:

Despite that fact that what photography shows is slightly different from what the naked eye sees, and that a photo's colours can also be enriched to make it look better (also more false, so to speak), the resultant photograph is still telling many basic truths, such as the relative darkness of the woods to the ground, and the variation in colour of the woods. You don't say a woman is 'false' when she has done some enhancement on her face by means of cosmetics, and as before her eyebrows are still darker than her skin.

Your photo can also explain my ideas when it is un-enriched.


Here the lush colours of the original image are gone, and the image will be very close to reality if my colour reduction was not overdone. The 2 facts remain unchanged: that the trees are generally darker than the ground around them, and that there is colour variation (mainly cold-warm alteration) in the sparse woods. Actually these facts are still present when you de-colour it so much that it is almost black and white, below:

So we need to be aware that truths should not be thrown away when there are some small blemishes accompanying them. And the photos I posted are still a readable reference for the CoD players, and hopefully also for the developer.

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