[Leica] IMG: Finally!

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Thanks, Ted, for the detailed and very kind comment.  These days, I have 
more time than anything else, and, when an image has some distracting 
characteristic, like distractions in the wrong areas, I tend to spend 
some time trying to better the situation.  It's fun, and also cheap.

I watched my late father-in-law, who had a portrait studio, retouch 5x7 
black and white negatives with very sharply pointed pencils.  I could 
not have done it!  It is amazing how many things that used to be tedious 
and labor-intensive can now be done with the click of a mouse button.

Thanks again for your comments.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 7/11/2015 4:02 PM, Ted Grant wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> Well Jim I didn't see the previous image so I can't comment on your
> question. However? This image modified or not is an out and out incredible
> butterfly photograph.
> If one didn't know it had been tweaked in some fashion? Nor how much it was
> fiddled?
> It DOESN'T MATTTER! It's one super beautiful photograph.
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> Now I know there is and are all kinds of things out there in the cold cruel
> world for "tweaking or fiddling" photos. The truth is for me? "IT'S always
> the content first and foremost!
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> I'd much rather never know an image has been fiddled certainly  where
> colours have been mightily changed compared to the original.  Sure my style
> of tweaking amounts to?  "auto-colour" And or other auto things the 
> computer
> will do? Within reason!
> And if it looks "cool?"  That's where it stays. If it kind of looks over
> done?? Click it's gone back to the original!
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> It's sort of a carryover from those great B&W days and retouching which I
> never learned to do. A little burning in around the outer sides of the
> print, that should be so gentle a viewer almost doesn't realize it was 
> done.
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> Sorry a bit long! :-(
> cheers,
> Dr. ted Grant
> TEDGRANTPHOTO.COM
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On 
> Behalf Of
> Jim Nichols
> Sent: July-11-15 11:40 AM
> To: LUG at Leica-Users.org; Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Finally!
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> I posted a modified image which I prefer.  Anyone agree or disagree?
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> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Tiger+Swallowtail+modified.TIFF
> .html
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> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
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> On 7/11/2015 1:14 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> Finally had a Tiger Swallowtail spend some time on my Buddleia bush.
>> The noonday sun was harsh, but I wanted to get a shot anyway.
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>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Tiger+Swallowtail.tif.html
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>> Olympus E-1 with ZD 14-54, Version 1
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>> Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated.
>>
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