[Leica] It's all your fault

[Sonny Carter]

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.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>
> >> Sonny
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Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana
1714
Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase

USA