Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/05/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No different from what Ansel Adams did, with the tools at his command at that period of time, and quite obsessively, if you ask me! IMHO, he would be a very enthusiastic user of Photoshop if he was of this generation. Getting misty eyed about inefficient processes of the past, and not taking advantage of current technology to improve the end product, is just a Luddite's dream. Cheers jayanand On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 7:10 AM, Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 8:16 PM Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > > > So, those great flower pics...they have been digitally altered? OK, a > > little pollen I could understand, but a tear in the leaf...a tear that > > Mother Nature put there? > > > > Ken > > > > > Digitally altered? I crop the image, I rotate it slightly to keep the leaf > from trailing off the frame, I spot out a bit of dirt or pollen. Sometimes > there?s a little rust on a petal. Away with it. Yeah, even a tiny tear > gets mended. > > I shoot all my images available light, hand held. No black cloths shield > the eye from the background. Conversely, if an aged bud is in the shot, > it stays. A spider web? Stays. A little ice burn on a Camellia? It > might stay, like the one I posted the morning after our snow this year. > > These flower portraits get a good once over, just like portraits of my > wife, my grandkids or even my cats. I want the subject to look good. > > Much truer than focus stacking or building panoramas from multiple > exposures, or even making black and white images of color scenes. > > If you shoot a picture, the camera digitally alters the light into an > image. So the short answer to your question is yes. > > SonC > > > > > > > > > > On 5/13/2018 2:48 PM, Sonny Carter via LUG wrote: > > > On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 1:43 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at > > > frozenlight.eu> > > wrote: > > > > > >> Right on. I do not even have Photoshop anymore. LR is more than > enough. > > If > > >> I have to spend 1/2 hour manipulating an image in a piece of software > to > > >> make it look decent, then I have screwed up at the time of taking the > > >> picture. > > > > > > My mileage varies! > > > > > > I use PS because LR doesn?t have an adequate way to spot images, and > > > flowers almost always have stray pollen, dirt or minute tears that > could > > > use attention. I spend very little time ?fixing? images, but every > shot > > I > > > post gets at least a once over. I also prefer the solutions available > in > > > PS for straightening falling buildings. The nice LR tools are all > > present > > > in PS in camera raw filter. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://sonc.com/look/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > 1714 > Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase > > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >