Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric I have no problem with phoshop at all - I use photoshop daily and I can not stand being in a darkroom. The photographers I was refering to has not been comfortable with the process of looking over all the shots on a computer and post-processing, retouching them and having the full responsibility of their cmyk values etc. - some of them are very skilled and still very popular photgraphers, creating some amazing pictures but they just dont like working digital. I am planing on going for the imcon ixpress next year for alle the fine-art i shoot at museums. But before I am up and running with a set up that satisfy my demands with a calibrated printer that match the digital approval printer at my printer, a dedicated workstation with a calibrated monitor, a portable labtop, and adapters for both fuji and hasselblad im getting close to 35-40.000 usd. As I am often both doing the photography and using it for the books and catalogs I publish I don have anybody but my selv pushing me to go digital so I am not forced into a premature and more expensive solutuion. Regards Ruben Eric Welch wrote: > Ruben, > > And how does sending your work to a lab any more "photographer-like" > than doing it in a darkroom or in Photoshop? > > I guess it all has to do with where the creativity in the job is, > right? And then picking the tools to do it more efficiently. > > Maybe there could be a market for Photoshop artists who can do custom > work for clients they get to know just like a custom lab. In the end, > a lab print can never be as "precisely perfect" as a real photo (I'm > not talking inkjet prints here) that's been through the hands of a > skilled Photoshop user. There is so much more fine control. I think > the issue of quality lies there and not on which inkjet printer is the > best. And in the future, custom labs will change the back end, but > still offer essentially the same services. Just with different > equipment to serve the needs of commercial/portrait/too- > busy-to-print-their-own photographers. > > On Dec 1, 2003, at 1:52 AM, RUBEN BLĘDEL wrote: > >> they dont whant to suffer countless hours in front of phoshop " they >> want to be photographers > > > Eric Welch > Carlsbad, CA > http://www.jphotog.com > > "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The > pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html