[missbirdphotos] Re: An idea for helping each other learn about post-processing
- From: Robert Smith <rsmithent@xxxxxxx>
- To: <missbirdphotos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:26:13 -0400
Now that sounds like an excellent idea!
Robert Smith
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rsmithent@xxxxxxx
www.photobiologist.com
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:52:07 -0700
From: dr_frank_hensley@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [missbirdphotos] An idea for helping each other learn about
post-processing
To: missbirdphotos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I wonder what you all think of this: (Oops, sorry. I live in MS now, don't I?
I'll try again.)
I wonder what y'all think of this: If someone would volunteer to post a RAW
photo (probably too big for an attachment, so it would need to go on a server
for download) and then anyone who wanted to could try post-processing. Give
people a couple of days to find time to work on it, and then people could post
.jpgs of their work and we could compare results, discussing both the aspects
of the work and the advantages/disadvantages of the software used. People could
also keep track of how many steps it took and how much actual time was spent.
I'm prompted to do this because I think some people's work just "pops" and
others I look at and say "that's photoshopped" because the results look
over-processed
and unnatural to me.
Now we'd need some ground rules. Discussion would have to be civil of course
and allow for the fact we have different tastes and personal preferences. But I
think I would stand to learn a lot, and also it would help me make some
decisions about whether to buy some more expensive software or to keep using
the free stuff I rely on.
It might be best if we had two volunteers at a time, one to post a Nikon RAW
image and one to post a Canon RAW, in case people use software that only
handles one format. I'd be happy to volunteer a Nikon shot if I can figure out
how to make it available for download...
What do you think of the idea? Participation voluntary, or course. We could set
a date for the "big reveal" and then commence discussion. I can think of
several ways to do this that would be educational. For example, we could do an
initial round for a
photo with good exposure, then maybe a round that is overexposed and practice
rescue techniques. One round could have rippling water as a background, but
since it is MS maybe a snowy background is a low priority ("Hallelujah!" says
the guy who moved here from Chicago!). I think the only requirement for the
photos used would be that they are in focus and close to correct exposure. They
would not have to be anyone's best work - just workable.
Your thoughts? How many of you would play, if we tried this?
-FrankP.S. Can you tell I'm on Spring Break from school? :)
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