[Leica] Sky Replacement

[Philippe]

Jayanand is wise - and speaks as if he were me. 

OTT, we’re getting into ART territory, which makes a HUGE difference from the traditional, not to say folkloric Leica stance of « objectivity «  … I don’t know what that means, at all, perhaps I’m biassed ;-)

Amities

Philippe



> Le 31 oct. 2020 à 18:01, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
> 
> How does it make a difference. as long as you enjoy it, and as long as it
> is not seen under false pretences? After all, in all other forms of
> artistic endeavour, no restrictions are placed on, or, indeed, accepted by
> the artist. I have never understood why photographers are constantly shamed
> by their peers to labour under a different rule. My guess is that we place
> these restrictions on ourselves because anybody can be technically
> proficient, given  endless practice and learning by rote, while a very
> miniscule percentage of photographers can be imaginative enough to be
> artistic, or original.
> 
> IMHO, the first person to take advantage of this technical wizardry that is
> available at our fingertips today would have been Adams himself, with his
> penchant for plenty of manipulation in the darkroom. He would have reveled
> in it. Most of us use Photoshop (or any other PP software) to a far lesser
> extent.
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 9:40 PM Ken Iisaka <ken at iisaka.com> wrote:
> 
>> Oh great... now everyone will be making (not taking) Ansel Adamesque
>> pictures on a sunny day.
>> 
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 02:45 Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Atomic post - mind the fallout ;-)
>>> 
>>> But might prove handy in some cases
>>> 
>>> Amities
>>> 
>>> Philippe
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Le 30 oct. 2020 à 20:42, Ken Carney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a
>>> écrit :
>>>> 
>>>> The Photoshop update last week (v. 22.0) includes a sky replacement
>>> feature, something I'm not really interested in but of course I had to
>> try
>>> it.  It would be great for real estate photographers, though.  This is a
>>> pano I took at Ghost Ranch in 2015, with a sky from Ghost Ranch taken 20
>>> years earlier.  Also I see the update includes "neural filters" so you
>> can
>>> make someone smile or frown etc.  I'm guessing that Adobe has pretty much
>>> run out of features for the average photographer.
>>>> 
>>>> Ken
>>>> 
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/Ghost+Ranch.jpg.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
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