Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you, Frank. The fault is not with you, it is with me! I need to stop taking every comment so seriously and only take what I need from the well-intended advice I get here. I literally spend a good part of the day crying in despair in front of my computer screen. I can't continue to do that without going nuts. Maybe getting away from the screen and spending this beautiful Spring day working in the garden will help. Tina On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: > Certainly NOT my intent. I enjoy looking at travel pictures... Yours, > especially, but also Nathan's and Jay's, to name just 2. I mentioned the > issue with the colors, only because I felt there was something amiss with > what I thought the public at large would have seen. Now that I understand > the point of showing the particular pictures for content and comsposition, > I understand that my comment was out of place. > > I apologize for interfering with your image flow. > > Please do not stop posting: Viewing them is my way of going with you, > vicariously, to many parts of the world I will never see. > > Frank Filippone > Red735i at verizon.net > > But now it doesn't look like dawn which was the whole point to me. > > I have fallen into the trap, again, of trying to adjust my photos to > please everyone. I will never get through 16,000 edits at this rate. > Right now, all I am doing is going through the photos as quickly as I can > and selecting those which might merit more detailed work later. I hit Auto > in LR to get in the ballpark. LR adjustments are non-destructive and I can > go back to the untouched photo at any time. I post the ones I am > considering and hope for comments on the content and/or composition. > Anything to do with white balance, exposure, lifting shadows, suppressing > highlights, contrast, spotting, sharpening can and will be done much later, > after I have finished all of the editing. > > Maybe I should just post the photos straight from LR with no adjustments > at all? Or maybe I should just not post them at all. It's too > discouraging and demoralizing. > > Thank you, > > Tina > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html