Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/25

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Subject: [Leica] Reflected waterfront
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:36:31 -0500 (CDT)

On Mar 24, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

>Here is the original picture. Quite a bit less saturated.

>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Reflected+colors+2.jpg.html

>Unfortunately it is very easy to get carried away by the image manipulation
>possibilities in Photoshop. Coming from a lifetime of work in film and wet
>processing, the ability to alter an image by pressing a few buttons seems
>like magic. It reminds me of "The Law of the Hammer." For those unfamiliar
>with the law, it is: Give a kid a hammer and everything looks like a nail.
>That's how Photoshop is to us film fossils.
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This is why I was leery of the new cloning powers.

Anyway, I love this shot in its original form.


Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
University Information Technology Services
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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