[LRFlex] Re: The camera never lies - but PS is downright dishonest

Good Mornin' Douglas, from an unseasonably cool part of Canada!

Personaly, I like the "after" shot... quite dramatic - and quite nicely done.

When I first started digital work, I wondered about 'diddling' with the image. 
It seemed, somehow, "unpure".

Yet, when we used the wet darkroom, with silver prints, we cropped, dodged, 
burned, switched papers & their contrast grades, and compensated for overall 
exposure... in fact, we did anything we could think of,  all in the persuit of 
the "perfect print". And all without ever thinking that we were making 
something that was 'unpure'.  We were just making prints!

So, I have come to rationalize that anything we can do, digitally, which is 
analagous to what we'd do with a silver print, is justified.

Removing lamp standards, overhead wires and other stuff, iinserting objects 
which were never there, or drastically changing the colour balance (except when 
restoring old prints and slides), is still taboo, to my way of thinking.  If we 
do these things, we are no longer photographers, but painters ... and, we 
should trade in our cameras for a pallette and brush set.

I like what you've done with that train.  Face it.  When we saw those dramatic 
prints in LIFE magazine, do we *really* think that they came that way, right 
out of the camera?

Have fun! Yer doin' fine!

David.

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On 29/06/2005 at 11:41 AM Douglas Sharp wrote:

>Usually I only sharpen my shots and adjust the levels, yesterday I went 
>the whole hog! Just to see what PS Elements 3.0 can do.
>
>Very much over the top :
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/German_Steam_Before
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/German_Steam_After
>
>I don't really know whether I like the idea of cheating like this, but 
>it was fun finding out out how.
>cheers
>Douglas

David Young,
Logan Lake, BC    
CANADA. 

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