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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