G'Mornin' Ted!
I can't argue with you.... the amount of digital manipulation is going to make
digital photography a farce. Which is rather sad.
Like you, I hold any "retouching" to an absolute minimum, so as to no alter the
essence of the shot. Perhaps a little tweak of contrast, etc., but that's it.
The photo shows what I saw.
As you say, with many, that's no longer the case.
David.
Hi David,------
This is bloody nonsense simply because they make "cheaters" out of
photographer's! Instead of quick finger trigger shooter honest photographers!"
" CAPTURE THE MOMENT! honestly!" If this is how digital use photography is
going? It is the beginning of nothing more than creating a bunch of liars
with a recording device making photography worthless. Rather than real life
honest photography.
Nothing wrong with a small amount of re-touching on a portrait. But
?????????? Where does it go from there, "THESE DAYS?" There are already
unscrupulous S.O.B.s around the world who work images near to death using
photo-shop and other cheating equipment to make themselves look like so
called "super-photogs," without creating more of them and or making it easier
to cheat!!!!!
Something I never did in my 65 year professional career as a professional
photojournalist, "PERIOD!"
"RETOUCH ANY OF MY IMAGES!"
cheers,
Dr.ted Grant O.C.
From: leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Stevens ;
(Redacted sender "fritzj3" for DMARC)
Sent: October-19-17 7:15 AM
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Facebook
Wow! What a way to come back to the "Flexer list" after finally cleaning up
from the damage of Hurricane Irma! Geeeez, I'm with you, David. To me its an
incredible example of impressive computational/programming work that starts
out "fun and cheery" but the ramifications for further rendering digital
images completely worthless as any form of documentary evidence of history
and "fact" is getting pretty complete, for better or, I am afraid, much
worse.
Best regards,
Peter Stevens
On Thursday, October 19, 2017, 9:45:20 AM EDT, David Young
<dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
G'Mornin'!
It seems that the computational photography group at Facebook, have found a
way to make people in still photos smile or otherwise change their
expressions. Works with any image, new to old tin-types.
To me, it's a bit creepy and I don't care for the idea. But, others may like
it.
Decide for yourself. Here's the BBC News item...
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-41668704/still-photographs-spring-to-life
David.
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