Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Time is a killer: I plan winter and wet days for the darkroom and sunny weekends for picture taking. Cheers On Tuesday, Jul 1, 2003, at 05:11 Australia/Melbourne, Barney Quinn wrote: > Tina, > > If I were a professional photographer, like you, I would have gone > digital long > ago. I always wanted a really nice Hasselblad. ( I have several really > nice > Leicas.) I found a used, mint 203 FE at a price it was really hard to > refuse. I > got it because someone needed funds to buy digital equipment. All this > talk > about the victory of digital, and there is no doubt in my mind that it > is > changing photography in some very fundamental ways, makes me feel > insecure, and > has me wondering if I did the right thing. > > My day job is as a computer professional. I have a 2 megapixel digital > camera. > I put Photoshop Elements on my computer. It was an interesting > experience. I am > not all that creative, but I am decent technically. Mostly what I like > to do > these days is nice looking 16x20's. I have about thirty spare minutes > a day. I > play the cello, and these almost always have to be dedicated to > practice. I > have no time to do wet dark room work, and that also means that I have > no time > to learn dry dark room work. One of my kids is into digital > photography. For me > to learn, really learn digital photography, particularly the computer > part if > it, as well as you or he knows it is going to take me two or three > years of > practice. Someday I will, but that may have to be a retirement project. > > Bareny > > Tina Manley wrote: > >> At 09:24 PM 6/29/2003 -0400, you wrote: >>> It could not be mage to look as good as a scanned >>> immage or a film print. Higlights were always blown out, dark areas >>> were just in the dumps - neither could be rescued. I just thought it >>> was >>> interesting to see a bunch of very bright photo neophytes SEE the >>> exact >>> same thing! All seemed to leave with the impression that digital is >>> OK >>> for the web, or shoot on a bright overcast day - but if you want it >>> all, >>> stay >>> with film. >>> Just an observation - don't shoot the messenger! >>> Ed >> >> As you say, Ed, they are photo neophytes. The learning curve for >> PhotoShop >> is very long. If you invest the time and effort to learn what >> PhotoShop >> can do, you will have no doubts that digital can surpass film - even >> in the >> dynamic range category. It does take time and effort to learn how to >> use >> it. I think I could study PhotoShop for the rest of my life and never >> learn everything that it can do. It is an extremely complex and >> powerful >> program. I am amazed every day at what I can do with PhotoShop, but >> you do >> have to dedicate a lot of hours to learning how to use it. On the >> other >> hand, it is fun!! >> >> Tina >> >> Tina Manley, ASMP >> www.tinamanley.com >> >> photos available from: >> www.pdiphotos.com >> www.workbookstock.com >> www.mira.com >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see >> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > Alastair - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html