[Leica] ***SPAM*** Re: Tina's softness/sharpness/focus issue - might be solved, in part

[Mark Rabiner]

I'm 63 and way out of shape and I'm not sure about my brains.
You know you can grab a bunch of similar ones all at the same time and tweak
them all simultaneously! I'm sure you know that. It took me awhile to figure
that one out its a boom to me now.
I just finished picking out 13 pix from a shoot I did of around 200 a promo
shoot and it was a real contrast problem. I used a 105 Micro Nikkor AFD. The
guys coat soaked up light like a sponge and I sure hope it was black and
navy blue because I had a hell of a time warming it up.
I think I spent more time rating the pix than tweaking them.
I tweak the ones which end up getting five stars.
Bit after tweaking them I find some of them get....
Marked Down!


On 3/20/15 10:15 PM, "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:

> You are right, Mark.  I need to tweak all of them before I judge them.  Iam
> 69 years old.  I won't have time.  I'm still scanning, all day every
day, the
> film from over 40 years of photography.  I just finished scanning
11,274
> slides of Portugal  I'm starting on Spain now, while I continue to
edit the
> photos from Cuba and Vietnam.

Life is entirely too short.

Thanks,

Tina

On
> Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
wrote:

>
> I don't even know if I like a pic unless I fine tune it first. I'm not shy
>
> about cropping and very few pix don't need some real contrast and exposure
>
> tweaking. And color tweaking. And there will be dark areas which need to be
>
> brought up and overly light areas which will need to be brought down.
> Just
> like darkroom work. Only with a lot more precision.
> Speaking for myself
> again I'm not comfortable for people to be seeing non
> edited and non tweaked
> work. Because its not my work yet till its finished.
>
>
> On 3/20/15 9:52 AM,
> "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > But I explained when I started
> posting these Cuba photos that they would
> not
> > be finished products.  The
> careful crafting will come after the
> editing, I
> > hope.  The editing is
> what I need help with.  These unfinished
> photos are
> > posted on pBase
> which is more like a sketchpad to me.  Many will
> be deleted.
> > The good
> ones that are eventually finished will be posted on
> my website, if I
> >
> live that long.  If I had posted carefully crafted
> finished photos, I
> would
> > not need help.  And I would never get through the
> editing.
>
>
> Tina
>
> On Fri, Mar
> > 20, 2015 at 9:44 AM, philippe.amard
> <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Le 20
> > mars 15 à 14:09, Tina
> Manley a écrit :
> >
> >  maybe I should just not post them
> > at all.
> >>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Probably! It would show more consideration for some of us
> >
> who tried in
> > earnest to help you.
> >
> > Jay posts a picture a day after
> his
> > trips, each of them has been carefully
> > crafted before sending.
> >
> Many others
> > here do that too, Lluis, Geoff, Richard, or George to name
> but
> > a few.
> >
> > I
> > won't fall in that trap again either.
> >
> >
> case closed
> >
> > Philippe
> >
> >
> >
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