Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:25 AM 12/1/2005, Daniel Ridings wrote: >On 12/1/05, Richard <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote: > > > >http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/crop0015.jpg > > >http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/crop0018.jpg > > > > Heh... if only I am so clever :-) I am too simpleminded to scheme > > things. I > > did darken a little bit already. I am always afraid of "doing too much" > > in > > Photoshop. > >I don't really understand this, Richard. Photoshop is our modern >darkroom. Even in a traditional darkroom one would piddle and fiddle >around with a print until it was just right. > >If you haven't learnt the techniques that Photoshop offers and if you >haven't used them, you are doing too little, not too much. > >I haven't learnt them all either, but I keep trying; little by little, >same way as in the darkroom. OK, let me see if I can explain: first and foremost, I suppose I am really weird, but I sort of like the slight hazy look. I don't mean I would want them in all my pictures, but I honestly am not pulling anyone's legs that to me they have certain charms. Obviously it looks like we have something like 100 vs. 1 with me being that lone opinion there, but I can accept that. I like GeeBee's mods too but I personally *may* still not do it that way. The remark about Photoshop also has to do with during one of the LUG Print Exchange (I think you are in that round too), the picture printed a bit soft, so I went aggressive on the sharpening, and... it was a disaster. Unfortunately, I didn't see that until I printed 12 of the 16, and by then I was running out of ink and paper. // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)