Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm 63 and way out of shape and I'm not sure about my brains. You know you can grab a bunch of similar ones all at the same time and tweak them all simultaneously! I'm sure you know that. It took me awhile to figure that one out its a boom to me now. I just finished picking out 13 pix from a shoot I did of around 200 a promo shoot and it was a real contrast problem. I used a 105 Micro Nikkor AFD. The guys coat soaked up light like a sponge and I sure hope it was black and navy blue because I had a hell of a time warming it up. I think I spent more time rating the pix than tweaking them. I tweak the ones which end up getting five stars. Bit after tweaking them I find some of them get.... Marked Down! On 3/20/15 10:15 PM, "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: > You are right, Mark. I need to tweak all of them before I judge them. Iam > 69 years old. I won't have time. I'm still scanning, all day every day, the > film from over 40 years of photography. I just finished scanning 11,274 > slides of Portugal I'm starting on Spain now, while I continue to edit the > photos from Cuba and Vietnam. Life is entirely too short. Thanks, Tina On > Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > I don't even know if I like a pic unless I fine tune it first. I'm not shy > > about cropping and very few pix don't need some real contrast and exposure > > tweaking. And color tweaking. And there will be dark areas which need to be > > brought up and overly light areas which will need to be brought down. > Just > like darkroom work. Only with a lot more precision. > Speaking for myself > again I'm not comfortable for people to be seeing non > edited and non tweaked > work. Because its not my work yet till its finished. > > > On 3/20/15 9:52 AM, > "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: > > > But I explained when I started > posting these Cuba photos that they would > not > > be finished products. The > careful crafting will come after the > editing, I > > hope. The editing is > what I need help with. These unfinished > photos are > > posted on pBase > which is more like a sketchpad to me. Many will > be deleted. > > The good > ones that are eventually finished will be posted on > my website, if I > > > live that long. If I had posted carefully crafted > finished photos, I > would > > not need help. And I would never get through the > editing. > > > Tina > > On Fri, Mar > > 20, 2015 at 9:44 AM, philippe.amard > <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> > wrote: > > > > > Le 20 > > mars 15 ? 14:09, Tina > Manley a ?crit : > > > > maybe I should just not post them > > at all. > >> > > > > > > > > > Probably! It would show more consideration for some of us > > > who tried in > > earnest to help you. > > > > Jay posts a picture a day after > his > > trips, each of them has been carefully > > crafted before sending. > > > Many others > > here do that too, Lluis, Geoff, Richard, or George to name > but > > a few. > > > > I > > won't fall in that trap again either. > > > > > case closed > > > > Philippe > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > _____ > > __________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > > See > > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _____ > __________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/