Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]no such thing as cheating just because you are able to do more in photoshop than in the treditional darkroom. Its only cheating if you sell the picture as ducumentation like in photojournalism, scientiffic research - evidence etc. working with photography as an art form a way of telling a story gives you all the right to use photoshop to make a better picture. sometimes you even make worse pictures by overdooing photoshop but no way is it cheating - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith R. Wessel" <keith@wbalaw.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 12:38 AM Subject: [Leica] PAW and conflicted with PhotoShop > I am putting up my efforts for weeks 10 and 11. In week 10 I took a > photograph that I particularly liked at my associates wedding reception. > But, as I was looking at it I didn't like all of the clutter in the > background. > > see http://wesselphoto.com/paw/10/slides/72_5A_0229.html > > so I used PhotoShop and took out the clutter. > > see > > http://wesselphoto.com/paw/10/slides/altered.html > > Is that cheating? Sure would not have tried this in the darkroom. Maybe I > should check the archives -- I suspect there has been a previous debate. > > Other new ones: > > http://wesselphoto.com/paw/10/index.html > > http://wesselphoto.com/paw/11/index.html > > -- > 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