Just try to add an interesting background to a good foreground shot in
color in a chemical darkroom. It was difficult enough to do in B&W,
Photoshop's a snap.
On 10/5/2010 4:59 PM, Walter Gilbert wrote:
Thanks, P. J.
Good point about storage. I guess I still think of hard drive space
as coming at a rather high premium -- and also, there's the fact that
I'm not the most well-organized person in the world. I tend to
scatter copies of images in various forms hither and yon, throughout
my drive. Though, I have gotten considerably better about it, now
that I'm doing more editing.
As for the Photoshop making it easy to combine elements into an
interesting image ... all I can say to that is that "easy" is a very
relative term. :-)
As for selling photos to the AP ... if I were going to try and pull of
something like that, I'd go to Reuters. ;-)
Best,
Walt
On 10/5/2010 2:55 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Apply some blur, some motion striping and call it art...
Hell, I seldom throw anything out, (unless it's just silly, like 100
pictures of a doorknob), storage is cheap, and you never know when
a great idea for combined images will strike you.
Somewhere on film I have a very nice photograph of an egret, with a
dead white sky. I also have a number of establishing shots on that
same roll of film that had nice blue sky fluffy clouds and
interesting Jungle type foliage, Photoshop makes it easy to combine
those elements to get an interesting image, where before there were
several boring and flawed images. Just don't sell the result to the AP.
On 10/5/2010 1:37 PM, Walter Gilbert wrote:
As I hasten to stipulate at every opportunity, I'm pretty new to
photography, and I have what may seem to be a stupid question. So,
please indulge me.
That said, what do all of you real photographers do with images that
may be flawed, but still have some redeeming qualities to them. For
instance, a shot that's too poorly focused to rescue with sharpening
tools and so forth, but does capture a sense of action that is
somewhat appealing. Like this one, for example:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7X4Utq1sTP4AoZG2S3S0zQ?feat=directlink
As you can see, it's a fairly severe crop, and has been sharpened
already to the point where it exhibits a pretty prominent halo as a
result. I do have a copy of the image, pre-halo, but not the
original file -- which I seem to have deleted somehow. I don't see
the image ever being finessed to the point where it's printable, but
I hate to just discard it because of the sense of action. Do you
all generally keep images like these, or just send them down the
memory hole to rid yourself of torment and temptation to return it
in futility?
Any guidance and/or damnation with faint praise are, as always,
greatly appreciated.
Best,
Walt
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"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral
bankruptcy."
-Woody Allen
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