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From: "Shel Belinkoff"
Subject: Re: How to make Good Pictures (Let's Free the Captured Images)
This is what bothers me the most ....
<much snippage>
Use technology to make great photographs, don't abuse it in order to
create
images that only exist on a layer in Photoshop.
I'll likely post a lengthy reply after I cogitate on this for a while, but
my initial thought is that we are seeing a change in photography from
composing in the viewfinder being the way it's done to composing on the
computer monitor.
Honestly, I think if major darkroom manipulation was easier, we would have
seen a lot more of it prior to Computer Re Adjusted Pictures (it makes a
nice acronym, no?)
The thing with Photoshop is that it is very easy to make large changes to an
image after the fact, and make it look fairly real. It's more akin to
fantasy art than photography.
I did some pictures for a girl at last weekends show. She wanted some nice
shots of her Russian bred Doberman. The only problem was that she couldn't
take it off leash (it is rather agressive, though it seemed to like me well
enough).
I ended up cloning out the leash in the final images and got some splendid
looking pictures, since the dog appears to be very alert in it's stance,
though the reality was that it was just straining against the leash.
I liked the working distance of the 77 on the istD as well......
William Robb
