[Leica] Sky Replacement

[Philippe]

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Amities

Philippe



> Le 31 oct. 2020 à 19:17, Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
> 
> I agree, Jim.  In my  darkroom days getting the perfect print meant going through ten or more sheets of extremely expensive paper.  Today I spend more time on an image than then, but I can come much closer to the image I wanted with today’s tools.
> 
> SonC
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> Sonny Carter
> http://www.SonC.com/look
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> 
>> On Oct 31, 2020, at 1:11 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>> 
>> What 4-Star Chef ever discloses his secret ingredient?  One should use any tool available to achieve a given goal.
>> 
>> In the 1950s and 60s, I composed and shot Kodachrome in my Leica, and the resulting slides usually had enough "keepers" to satisfy me.  But, we are not living in the past.  The world is very different, and so are the photo tools we have at our disposal.
>> 
>>> On 10/31/20 12:01 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
>>> 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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