Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pablo, it amazes me that you seem to almost be angry at Photoshop. I posted the dog paintings as a curiosity, and at the same time, I posted the original again so people could see the difference. I use Photoshop every day in my work. I primarily use it to restore contrast to very old photographs, in our efforts to preserve the images. You see, the University I work at owns several thousand early 20th Century photographs of the local area, and it is my job to scan them and save them from the ultimate loss. I also use Photoshop in my personal work. In fact, I don't think I have even been inside a darkroom since I learned to use the program five years ago. I use the crop functions, the dodge and burn and levels, and I spot my pictures, and oh yeah, when there's a big surveyor's stake with flourescent ribbon flying from it, I replace it with grass. Am I being intellectually dishonest? I don't think so. I'm using the imaging tools that I have at hand. I think of my skills with Photoshop as an extension of my skills with my Leicas. Some people think that about their matting ability. Some about their darkroom work. I could got to extremes with PhotoShop, I really could. It's easy to put a third eye in someone's forehead, but I don't go that far. When I was a young news photographer, I had the opportunity to spend some time with one of the older guys, a photographer whose name was Charlie Bennett. He was a long time shooter for the New Orleans Picayune. He told me about a guy who died, and they could not find a picture of him to run with the \oObituary. They checked everywhere, but no pix. So Charlie went to the morgue, and bribed the attendent to prop the guy up at the coroner's desk, while Charlie took a picture. They took it back to the paper and the staff artist painted the guy's eyes open, and they had their shot. Whew, and you criticize a little photoshop painting? I call it tradition. Regards, Sonny - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html