[Leica] VSCO Film - and Replichrome as well

[mitcha at mac.com]

I don’t know about laziness, but I think you have a completely different aesthetic that I am interested in. Take this shot, which is from the series that I linked:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/malland/9337150455/in/photostream/lightbox/

I suppose that this is one of the pictures that is giving you dyspepsia, but I like it a lot: you will notice that all the lighting in this picture comes from the fluorescent lights on the food stalls in the back of the frame, as you can see from the shadows on the ground. Of course I could have dodged the women in the foreground, but there was no light falling on their faces from the side I viewed them, and I am happy with how this looks. Actually, the woman on the right has been dodged by almost one stop. It seems to me that, beyond a difference in our aesthetics, you haven’t grasped the nature of the overall darkness of the scene.

- - Mitch


Subject: [Leica] VSCO Film - and Replichrome as well
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:28:30 -0400
I'm not getting overall blocked shadows on my screen in every shot. But I am
getting plenty. 
I'm getting blocked high areas on more than half of them.
I'm getting a general lack of craft. Hot areas are not burnt down and some
obvious open dark areas are not lightened or optimized. In other words no
local control.
They look  like the digital equivalent of machine prints. Untouched by human
hands... No dodging or burning. On the lists people pride themselves on
this. Its just lazy and shows a laziness in ones command of ones material's


On 10/10/14 5:27 AM, "Philippe Amard" <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> wrote:

> 
> Le 10 oct. 2014 ? 11:15, mitcha at mac.com a ?crit :
> 
>>  (http://bit.ly/1i93new),
> 
> All of these are underexposed (blocked shadows) and call for further post
> processing work IMHO, including adjusting those tilts and lists (e.g. the 
> last
> one).
> Add to this a need for reframing and punch in some - the first one would 
> gain
> from losing the guy on the left hand side for instance, flush of the lady, 
> a
> square might work for me.
> I like the people and the colours you got a lot though.
> Hope this helps.
> Amities
> Philippe
> 
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