Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The doing of photography is most decidedly cast in a negative light nowadays; Since I joined the LUG. We killed Lady DI didn't we; And so on. And our major weapon of evil is Photoshop. Certainly an agent of the underworld. But all Photoshop is is your darkroom if you shoot digital; Or print digital; Or have a website or gallery you upload to. And what we are used to seeing in magazines (not newspapers) are darkroom prints which went right to the air brushers where they were sprayed upon with veracity. In silver was left un sprayed upon. They're a book on that just out now yen you walk into the Barnes and Noble its right there on the first table on your left. The integrity of photography is no weaker now than it ever was. But we need a new PR guy. I recommend Bernie the guy whose most famous client was Robin Hood. A guy who stole from everybody and kept everything; But hired Bernie. A thousand year old man told me this. Mark William Rabiner > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:23:52 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Picture of the Year Controversy > > At 10:10 AM 4/20/2009, you wrote: >> Well That's pretty stupid of the Judges. I copied both his raw pictures >> in >> Photoshop, pulled the levels slider to the edge of the black, and had >> nearly >> the same images he ended up with. If I were doing it from raw, I could >> probably match his final shots with nothing more than levels and shadows >> highlight. Try it yourself. Also, the story said he was using a D700, >> the >> same kind of Leica Kyle uses. > \ > He talks about the RAW files from his Leica M8 being totally > different from those from his Nikon. I'd agree based on Leica M8's > and Canons. There is no comparison. I think the judges > over-reacted, too. One said he changed a chair to yellow and a wall > to blue when they are clearly those colors in the RAW, just washed > out - as RAW files sometimes are. > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information