Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It doesn't just apply to journalism though - it's beginning to be a lost reference point for all photography. The average kid today may never have been in a darkroom. Think about it - what the hell do "burn" and "dodge" mean - on the PS tools - if you've never done real darkroom work? :-) On 5/12/06 1:38 PM, "Philippe Orlent" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: > I agree. If it's about journalism. > > > Op 12-mei-06, om 19:34 heeft B. D. Colen het volgende geschreven: > >> You think you're joking, Philippe - just a couple of hours ago I was >> skimming a column in a national press photographer's association >> magazine in >> which a photography teacher at, as I recall, the University of >> Arkansas said >> that they are now two years past the last class of graduates to >> have ever >> spent time in a real darkroom. And that, he said, begins to raise >> havoc with >> what has been the standard ethical guideline regarding the use of >> photoshop >> - only do to the image in photoshop what you would normally have >> done in a >> darkroom; or only except from a photoshopped image what you would have >> accepted from the darkroom. But if today's photographers think a >> darkroom is >> their bedroom with the lights off.... >> >> >> On 5/12/06 1:11 PM, "Philippe Orlent" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> >> wrote: >> >>> Dodging? That's the 7th down from the 2nd row of 'tools', right? >>> >>> Just adding a ;-) to be sure. >>> >>> Op 12-mei-06, om 19:05 heeft Rei Shinozuka het volgende geschreven: >>> >>>> it's a very handsome photo otherwise, maybe dodging the surrounding >>>> areas would rescue the image. (doesn't the phrase "dodging" >>>> today sound almost quaint?) >>>> >>>> i have noticed that something approaching 100% of real-life "bad >>>> bokeh" >>>> examples are of vegetation; mostly tree branches or leaves. so keep >>>> those bad bokesters away from wildlife! >>>> >>>> -rei >>>> >>>>> On 5/12/06 12:39 PM, "Nathan Wajsman" <nathan@nathanfoto.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Well Daniel, with such subject matter one can tolerate many >>>>>> things...but >>>>>> that bokeh is indeed not very attractive. >>>>>> >>>>>> Nathan >>>>>> >>>>>> Daniel Ridings wrote: >>>>>>> A lot of people puke at my Rolleicord's bokeh (under certain >>>>>>> circumstances ... close focus, pretty much wide-open). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/informal/ >>>>>>> v15-0002-43264.jpg.html >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Daniel >>>>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com >>>> Ridgewood, New Jersey >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information