[Leica] IMG: Fruit Vendor

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

Great common sense as always.  Thanks, Dr. Ted!

Tina

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 5:53 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Tina Manley SHOWED:
> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Fruit Vendor
>
>
>  > One from 1977 that I developed myself in Iran.  It had a big orange
> > chemical stain on the top that is still slightly visible.  I tried
> > desaturating and cloning what I could.  It's much better than it was.
>  Any
> > suggestions for getting rid of it completely?
> >
> > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/143103410
> >
> > Worth working with or not?
>
> Hi Tina,
>
> If you hadn't said anything about "a stain?" I doubt anyone would've
> noticed it. But then every screen is different. ERGO? the stain maybe seen
> on some screens more so than another. Or not even seen at all.
>
> Bottom line? If it is so slight and you feel you've taken it out as much
> as possible without making the changes obvious?  Don't say anything about
> it. It's never use a "negative thought" triggering the observer to have
> negative thoughts, when if they knew not of your concerns. They'd have
> become raving accolades about how wonderful the photo is! :-) Add a word of
> negativism and that's what the viewer begins to look for! And your
> beautiful photo becomes a "second rate image!"  Always be positive, never
> any negative vibes at all!
>
> Heck if you feel any are there? Keep quiet and let the viewer find it on
> their own. Then if they should bring it up? Explain it as delicately as
> possible, but still trying to use positive wording as much as you can! Well
> that is unless you know in your heart it is truly a piece of crap and you
> should've dumped it in file 13 in the first place! ;-) But you let your
> "shooting image emotions" over ride your photographic common sense. Then
> threw away 2 hours fiddling the print to make something out if it, when
> in-reality it wasn't worth it in the first place........ :-(
>
> HOWEVER? WE HAVE ALL DONE THAT ALLOWING EMOTIONS OF SHOOTING THE MOMENT
> TAKE OVER OUR GUT FEELING COMMON SENSE!" Then blown hours trying to make
> something out of what was a kind of sows ear. Then shed a tear and dumped
> it. :-(
>
> However? if someone brings up the subject?  Then explain and ask for
> assistance as you did.
>
> But this photo itself is far from being a sow's ear with all the subjects
> and action going on it's strong action content holds the eyes attention
> without wandering all over the sky area "where maybe??" A stain or slight
> off colour might be noticed?
>
> So endth the lesson for today! ;-)
> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
>
>
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Tina Manley, ASMP
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