[Leica] Re: digital matters (WAS: Nathan's PAW 37: Sailing around Friesland with a fellowLUGger)

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

On 30/09/2005, at 2:41 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>
> As for manipulating the image to take the barge out or blur it in 
> Photoshop--both of those would be against my self-imposed "digital 
> code of conduct" which basically says that I will not do anything in 
> Photoshop which I did not do when I was printing in the wet darkroom. 
> This means that cropping, rotating, levels adjustments, conversion to 
> B&W are all OK, but taking out or adding elements, or selectively 
> blurring them, is strictly Verboten. The only exception to this rule 
> is unsharp masking--I did not do it in the darkroom, but in the 
> digital world it is necessary, so I make an exception there.

I used unsharp masks in the computer before trying it in the darkroom: 
It was a technique I shied away from for years, but last year I entered 
the world of darkroom masks --- the results can be great, but I'd stick 
to the digital version unless you are as crazy as me ;-)

Cheers

Alastair