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

[Mark Rabiner]

For me its just daunting to think that for every minute I spend shooting I
need to easily spend  and hour rating and tweaking. What I call "crunching"
my pix.
Its daunting and overwhelming.
I do it late at night as I don't want to phone to ring and I don't want to
be going out for a soda I need no interruptions. No help.
If I shot thousands like Tina I'd just plan it like writing a novel.
Three hours in the morning with my coffee, tea and breakfast.
Every morning for weeks, months and years till its done.
Three hours is my time limit. I'm also used to three hour shoots.


On 3/20/15 10:02 PM, "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:

> I should make it clear that this is MY problem, not the problem of anyonewho
> is trying to help.  It is my trap that I have made for myself.  I need
to
> learn to filter out what I can use and what is irrelevant to my
editing.  I
> take every comment entirely too seriously which is a problem I
have had all of
> my life and has nothing to do with fiddling with exposure
settings or anything
> else.  I just need help editing content.  I would love
to hire a full-time
> editor. I can't.  I appreciate any comments I can get
on content.

Tina

On
> Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:

> But
> now it doesn't look like dawn which was the whole point to me.
>
> I have
> fallen into the trap, again, of trying to adjust my photos to
> please
> everyone.  I will never get through 16,000 edits at this rate.
> Right now,
> all I am doing is going through the photos as quickly as I can
> and selecting
> those which might merit more detailed work later. I hit Auto
> in LR to get in
> the ballpark.  LR adjustments are non-destructive and I can
> go back to the
> untouched photo at any time.  I post the ones I am
> considering and hope for
> comments on the content and/or composition.
> Anything to do with white
> balance, exposure, lifting shadows, suppressing
> highlights, contrast,
> spotting, sharpening can and will be done much later,
> after I have finished
> all of the editing.
>
> Maybe I should just post the photos straight from LR
> with no adjustments
> at all?  Or maybe I should just not post them at all.
> It's too
> discouraging and demoralizing.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Tina
>
> On Fri,
> Mar 20, 2015 at 6:54 AM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>
>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I was wondering why the combo didn't deliver what it should
> have and may
>> have found the WB to be the main cause.
>>
>> Please view this
> before/after screenshot.
>>
>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/407159-1/Image+1.png
>>
>> And I went a
> little further although starting from the jpeg
>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/Image+2.png.html
>>
>> I
> think that editing from the RAF would work wonders
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
> Philippe
>>
>> One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is
> invisible to
>> the eye. Antoine de Saint Exupéry in Le Petit Prince.
>> NO
> ARCHIVE
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
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>
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> na+Manley.html
>
>
>


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> Manley
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