Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/05/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]+1 Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 5/14/2018 10:29 PM, Sonny Carter via LUG wrote: > You didn?t need a smiley; I think it?s good that others know my philosophy > of editing. > > Glory be we have these tools. > > > SonC > > > > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:08 PM Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > >> Yes, it boggles the mind to imagine Ansel or Gene Smith with Photoshop. >> The over-exposed shoulder of the "pioneer woman", no problemo. My reply >> to Sonny was a failed attempt at humor, yet another one. >> >> Ken >> >> >> On 5/14/2018 9:56 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: >>> No different from what Ansel Adams did, with the tools at his command at >>> that period of time, and quite obsessively, if you ask me! IMHO, he would >>> be a very enthusiastic user of Photoshop if he was of this generation. >>> >>> Getting misty eyed about inefficient processes of the past, and not >> taking >>> advantage of current technology to improve the end product, is just a >>> Luddite's dream. >>> >>> Cheers >>> jayanand >>> >>> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 7:10 AM, Sonny Carter via LUG < >> lug at leica-users.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 8:16 PM Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> So, those great flower pics...they have been digitally altered? OK, a >>>>> little pollen I could understand, but a tear in the leaf...a tear that >>>>> Mother Nature put there? >>>>> >>>>> Ken >>>>> >>>> Digitally altered? I crop the image, I rotate it slightly to keep the >> leaf >>>> from trailing off the frame, I spot out a bit of dirt or pollen. >> Sometimes >>>> there?s a little rust on a petal. Away with it. Yeah, even a tiny tear >>>> gets mended. >>>> >>>> I shoot all my images available light, hand held. No black cloths >> shield >>>> the eye from the background. Conversely, if an aged bud is in the >> shot, >>>> it stays. A spider web? Stays. A little ice burn on a Camellia? It >>>> might stay, like the one I posted the morning after our snow this year. >>>> >>>> These flower portraits get a good once over, just like portraits of my >>>> wife, my grandkids or even my cats. I want the subject to look good. >>>> >>>> Much truer than focus stacking or building panoramas from multiple >>>> exposures, or even making black and white images of color scenes. >>>> >>>> If you shoot a picture, the camera digitally alters the light into an >>>> image. So the short answer to your question is yes. >>>> >>>> SonC >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 5/13/2018 2:48 PM, Sonny Carter via LUG wrote: >>>>>> On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 1:43 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at >>>>>> frozenlight.eu> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> Right on. I do not even have Photoshop anymore. LR is more than >>>> enough. >>>>> If >>>>>>> I have to spend 1/2 hour manipulating an image in a piece of software >>>> to >>>>>>> make it look decent, then I have screwed up at the time of taking the >>>>>>> picture. >>>>>> My mileage varies! >>>>>> >>>>>> I use PS because LR doesn?t have an adequate way to spot images, and >>>>>> flowers almost always have stray pollen, dirt or minute tears that >>>> could >>>>>> use attention. I spend very little time ?fixing? images, but every >>>> shot >>>>> I >>>>>> post gets at least a once over. I also prefer the solutions available >>>> in >>>>>> PS for straightening falling buildings. The nice LR tools are all >>>>> present >>>>>> in PS in camera raw filter. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> 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 >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Sonny >>>> http://sonc.com/look/ >>>> Natchitoches, Louisiana >>>> 1714 >>>> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase >>>> >>>> USA >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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