Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/05/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You didn?t need a smiley; I think it?s good that others know my philosophy of editing. Glory be we have these tools. SonC On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:08 PM Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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