[missbirdphotos] Re: An idea for helping each other learn about post-processing
- From: "Judy Howle" <howle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <missbirdphotos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:59:54 -0500
It all depends on how high your expectations are and how good they look just
using those apps. I don't have a Mac so I've never seen Aperture or iPhoto,
which I've heard is a very basic editor for adjusting "snapshots". I used
Canon's DPP for 2 wks when I got a new SLR before Adobe released a new ACR
version to cover the camera and I despised it. Almost everyone in the Canon
Yahoo groups I belong to and other forums agree that it has an awful
interface and is very slow to use. If you have as little patience as I do
and shoot a lot you will pull your hair out using DPP, LOL. Even if it might
do a slightly better job with noise on Canon cameras, the extra time spent
is not worth it to most people.
How much you are willing to invest in software? Most people who put out the
$$$ for an SLR should be willing to at least buy Elements @ $79 I would
think. I always do further tweaking on mine in Photoshop CS5 than what came
out of Lightroom. I think the different colored backgrounds of the two apps
have something to do with my tonal adjustments as the Ps desktop is medium
gray and it's dark charcoal in Lr, so I often find that I have toned down
the image brightness too much when I run it through Levels and can easily
bring it up then. Plus I have the Nik and Topaz plugins that could be used
from Lightroom but I always do it from Photoshop and my noise reduction
plugins are in Ps also.
Also, there are many times that you might need to do selective adjustments,
ideally on layers, to part of an image, such as dodging/burning, Levels,
hue/sat or to remove any objects that detract from the image with the clone
stamp tool or the Spot healing brush that can easily be done in Elements. I
remove objects all the time from my nature photos such as part of a nearby
bird, a beer bottle or milk jug in the water at the lake, and logs in my
sunset photos at the lock and dam, branches across a bird's body, and a
large pile of killdeer poop that happened just as I snapped the picture
<grin>.
Judy Howle
Southern Exposures
http://southernexposure.zenfolio.com
Digital Photography Class; Resources for Photographers
http://digitalphotographyclass.net
From: missbirdphotos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:missbirdphotos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Pace
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:37 PM
To: missbirdphotos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [missbirdphotos] Re: An idea for helping each other learn about
post-processing
The concept is great and I am sure I could benefit more than most from step
by step instruction on post processing. But before I invest time, money and
an almost sure to come inordinate amount of emotional energy (frustration) ;
I would like to pose one question. If I work very hard to get the best
capture possible from the camera--exposure, focus, white balance, etc.--will
it be necessary to post process using programs other than --let's say my Mac
I-Photo or aperture or the Canon program?
What's that you say? Lazy! Maybe.
Larry
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