Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Agreed to the full - the composition and aesthetics of the 'new' image are way above the crop. Keep painting with light Jim Amiti?s Philippe Tous vos emails en 1 clic avec l'application SFR Mail sur iPhone et Android - En savoir plus. ======================================== Message du : 07/09/2012 19:35 De : "George Lottermoser " <imagist3 at mac.com> A : "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Copie ? : Sujet : Re: [Leica] IMG: Old Lens, New B'fly On Sep 5, 2012, at 7:11 PM, Jim Nichols wrote: > George, > > Here is a slightly larger crop from the image that I posted today. Aside > from the usual presets that I use in the RAW converter, I made no other > changes. It was converted to 16-bit jpg, cropped, resized, and converted > to 8-bit jpg. > > I await your comments. I always like to find ways to improve. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Unprocessed+72.jpg.html Thanks Jim. This certainly "FEELS" much more photographic to me. For me photography has the ability to present a minute slice of time, in a two dimensional frame, which "feels" very real. This "feeling" can come out of a decisive moment in human experience. It can also come from the ability of a lens to record detail in such a way as to suggest the velvety feel of a butterfly wing, in contrast with the spiky antennae, and/or drop of water or shiny leaves, When the decisive moment combines with the cameras ability to record fine detail and an artful aesthetic composition magic seems to arise off the 2 dimensional plane. When processing (sharpening, noise reduction, etc.) turns each unique surface and texture into a sameness - a smoothness - something "feeling" brittle glass; it seems the very strength of "photography" gets lost. YMMV Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information