[Leica] Ice hockey shots, wide open

[SonC at aol.com (SonC@aol.com)]

In a message dated 12/17/2004 5:36:53 PM Central Standard Time, 

Each to his own, but it is my conclusion after many years of doing this that 
the exposure on the negative is only the first step in the editing process.  
The second step is to throw away  losers.  Third step is to take the most 
promising frames and bring them to their potential.  It doesn't matter if 
you are 
working on Photoshop or in the darkroom, tuning a fine automobile, or 
throwing 
a vase on a turntable; the principle is the same.

Posting a shot that is less than you can make it from start to finish only 
makes you look like a sloppy photographer, and no amount of excuses can 
change 
what people see.  

Camera technique is terribly important, but sometimes you have to help a 
little afterwards. Crop, dodge, burn, adjust levels and curves.  If you had 
a 
three year old daughter, and she wanted to get into your lap, would you tell 
her 
to do it all by herself? Of course not.  The picture is your product; make 
it 
as good as you can before you show it.  

Many of my pictures have flaws, and sometimes I do not notice them, but when 
someone points out an error, and I agree, I will go back and try to make it 
right.  I owe that to my images, and you do too.

Regards, 
Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane
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rangefinder@screengang.com writes:
Thanks Sonny,
That's a rather astonishing sharpening tool. But as I'm concerned, I prefer 
to work on my RF handling instead of tinkering my pics in the computer (as 
I'm working in Photoshop and other tools all day long, anyway). This shot 
happened incidentally, I was focusing on the goal's net, when this boy 
suddenly wooshed through my frame.
Didier


>Didier, you might like to look into Focus Magic.  I made an example for you.
>http://www.sonc.com/Didier_focus.htm
>Sonny
>
>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/12-2004/bambini_1