Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Precisely correct. On Feb 10, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Philippe Orlent wrote: > If you care about the most perfect result imagewise, do not > hesitiate to crop, rework perspective, dodge, burn, tint, clone, > erase, add, ... Most of the finest writers and musicians know of the constant rewrite process. Ansel Adams spoke of the negative as a score which required interpretation in the print. The process does not stop with the capture. > If you're into the zen thing of getting it all right from the first > time on, don't. For me it's a combination. I always work toward making the frame (negative, chrome, capture, whatever) perfect in the camera; in this zenist manner. However, I experience perfection only rarely. So I continue to work with what I have. > And then the question rises: is it a good image when it needs > explanation? Regards, George Lottermoser george@imagist.com