Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, I dont agree about Rhinos - from elephant back, or a jeep: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand_001/kaziranga/ Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > > > On Apr 19, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Leonard Taupier wrote: > > > >> Here is an example of a bird I have only seen in dense brush, and > >> rare at that. I would not remove the tangled brush as it would > >> change it's habitat. I watched this bird for 15 minutes and it never > >> came out of the brush, just flew from one bush to another. It's a > >> White Throated Sparrow. > >> > >> http://tinyurl.com/2uydoz > > > > > > if you wanted to use Photoshop to truly serve the bird...you would add > > dense brush, to make the bird less visible. > > > > Steve > > > > > >> > >> > >> Len > >> > >> > >> > >> On Apr 19, 2008, at 10:29 AM, wildlightphoto@earthlink.net wrote: > >> > >>> Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Doug! What kind of Photoshopping are we talking about here which > >>>> distorts > >>>> the truth of the bird and its habitat? > >>> > >>> If image editing removes the clutter of dense brush so that the > >>> bird appears to be in the open it's been moved from one habitat to > >>> another. Some birds will never be seen away from dense brush, some > >>> are typically open-country birds and would not be found in dense > >>> brush. In the case of the Cardinal, as Len explained, the bird may > >>> be found in either dense brush or singing in the open. > >>> > >>> Doug Herr > >>> Birdman of Sacramento > >>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > > > > best, Steve > > > Thing is for years and before Photoshop standard bird and other animal > photography has been with very long lenses and picking a moment when there > is nothing of course; between YOU and THEM. A brief moment I'd think when > you had them in the clear. > The fact is this is an abstraction. > In real life you're not going to see a bird like that as if your right on > top of it. Its going to be far away and in the thicket. Rhino's too I > think. > I say all this because there is a mind set now that photography became > "fake" when it went digital. And I don't think that's the case. > Photography was never real. > > We cant trust the reality of a photo now because of Photoshop? > No we never could. > There was airbrush. I owned one. > > > > > Mark William Rabiner > markrabiner.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >