[Leica] IMG: Fruit Vendor

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Tina Manley SHOWED:
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Fruit Vendor


 > One from 1977 that I developed myself in Iran.  It had a big orange
> chemical stain on the top that is still slightly visible.  I tried
> desaturating and cloning what I could.  It's much better than it was.  Any
> suggestions for getting rid of it completely?
> 
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/143103410
> 
> Worth working with or not?
 
Hi Tina,

If you hadn't said anything about "a stain?" I doubt anyone would've noticed 
it. But then every screen is different. ERGO? the stain maybe seen on some 
screens more so than another. Or not even seen at all. 

Bottom line? If it is so slight and you feel you've taken it out as much as 
possible without making the changes obvious?  Don't say anything about it. 
It's never use a "negative thought" triggering the observer to have negative 
thoughts, when if they knew not of your concerns. They'd have become raving 
accolades about how wonderful the photo is! :-) Add a word of negativism and 
that's what the viewer begins to look for! And your beautiful photo becomes 
a "second rate image!"  Always be positive, never any negative vibes at all! 

Heck if you feel any are there? Keep quiet and let the viewer find it on 
their own. Then if they should bring it up? Explain it as delicately as 
possible, but still trying to use positive wording as much as you can! Well 
that is unless you know in your heart it is truly a piece of crap and you 
should've dumped it in file 13 in the first place! ;-) But you let your 
"shooting image emotions" over ride your photographic common sense. Then 
threw away 2 hours fiddling the print to make something out if it, when 
in-reality it wasn't worth it in the first place........ :-( 

HOWEVER? WE HAVE ALL DONE THAT ALLOWING EMOTIONS OF SHOOTING THE MOMENT TAKE 
OVER OUR GUT FEELING COMMON SENSE!" Then blown hours trying to make 
something out of what was a kind of sows ear. Then shed a tear and dumped 
it. :-( 

However? if someone brings up the subject?  Then explain and ask for 
assistance as you did.

But this photo itself is far from being a sow's ear with all the subjects 
and action going on it's strong action content holds the eyes attention 
without wandering all over the sky area "where maybe??" A stain or slight 
off colour might be noticed?

So endth the lesson for today! ;-)
cheers,
Dr. ted :-)