Tom Reese wrote: > > > I'm sure you would perceive that as OK however if I have a jet trail in the > > midst of the sky of my otherwise pristine natural landscape I'm going to > > consider cloning it out, it shouldn't be there and I can control it being > > there > > except after the fact. Would you view this action as a contradiction WRT to > > the > > concept of the nature photograph? > > I wouldn't take the shot unless I could compose the picture to keep the jet > trail out of the frame. I'm a >purist and I would object to the cloning.
Although I'm shooting digital now, Tom, I agree with out totally about this kind of thing. I'm getting to like digital, but it is rather out of necessity. The darkroom fumes make me ill, my eyes can't adjust to going back and forth from dark to light to perceive when I've made a good print fast enough, my back and shoulder have been broken in such a way that the stuff I 'd need to do physically in the darkroom to get prints just hurts too much. And more than that, one digital camera with a couple of gigs of card and batteries really has saved me money in the past year for just the information photos I've taken to sell stuff on ebay. I'm trying to sell stock, and digital is the way the agencies are going. But if I have to do more in photoshop than crop, darken a bit or lighten a bit - ad a but more saturation,etc, stuff I'd done in the darkroom, I'd just dump the picture. I wish I still had the funds to shoot slides and get my LX and KX cameras back in working order and buy film and shoot slides... but after the Kodak lab at Fairlawn closed, even when I still shot slides the quality was never the same. > > FWIW, your picture wouldn't qualify as a nature print in our club and > interclub competitions. And even with digital, a nature stock agency won't take manipulated stuff... at least mine won't. >That type of manipulation is against the rules. We do have separate digital >categories where that type of >manipulation is permitted. > > Tom Reese > I have to say that I don't even like the introduction of props into the nature close-up scene, no matter how pretty they may end up. annsan well, I'm a little grumpy tonight - achoo again
