Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/05/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, it boggles the mind to imagine Ansel or Gene Smith with Photoshop.? The over-exposed shoulder of the "pioneer woman", no problemo.? My reply to Sonny was a failed attempt at humor, yet another one. Ken On 5/14/2018 9:56 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information