Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Philippe: I told you it would escape many. Walt Philippe Orlent wrote: > Mads, > > Sorry, but this is a real and unmerged image. What you see was there > as it was, whatever feeling that might evoke. > I removed the mast on this shot though: http://www.fullflavor.be/ > photography/HMSWM/slides/HMSWM2.html > because it bothered the image. Some buildings in the background were > removed, too. > > About the WM: I wrongly (but with a certain logic) assumed that it > was an abbreviation of HMS Westminster, as the frigat is called. The > helicopter is a Merlin indeed. I read it replaced the Sea King, a > helicopter still flying in our own army. > A shot from somebody else: www.havengore.com/HMSWestminster.jpg. The > pole is there. Maybe it is removed pre take-off? > > Now about the merging thing: you make it sound as if I'm tampering. > I have repeatedly stated that I postprocess my images in PS, because > I consider myself more as a 'maker' than as a 'taker'. > This can involve changing color, contrast, taking things out, > changing or adding grain, dodging and buring, moving things slightly, > ... On some very rare occasions it means adding things that were not > there. And if I do the latter, I always mention it. > Long threads have been written about this methodology/my and others > standpoint: a minority on this list is pro. > As I walk around and visualise things while shooting, I very often > decide to modify an image in PS because I think it will make it more > as what I see in my head. I call it 'boosting an image'. > More even, sometimes I just construct images photographically. And I > do not have a problem with that, not considering myself a reporter. > Does that make me a great photographer? > I don't know, and honestly, I don't really mind. I just want to make > images that have a certain stopping power with people, and I love to > use the camera as the tool to make them. > Do I need a Leica for that? Since it's a great tool, I think so, yes. > But it is not the only camera that I use. As I also mention when > posting. > > Finally, about truth in photography: since its early beginnings, this > is an ongoing theme in this discipline. One can even wonder if truth > really exists. But that is another story. > > I hope this clears some things out. > > Also: a big thank you to everybody that commented on this image. > Sometimes you try to tell a story without too many words, and it is a > real pleasure to see that some saw in it what I had in mind. > > Philippe > > > > Op 30-mrt-06, om 08:12 heeft Mads Christensen het volgende geschreven: > >> Sorry for being a bit late but I am on the LUG digest only. >> >> >> >> I have two comments: >> >> >> >> 1) WM = A helicopter named Merlin, manufactured by Agusta Westland >> Helicopters Ltd., Yeovil, England. >> >> >> >> 2) I am absolutely sure that there are no masts w/o the Royal Navy >> flag that >> close to the helicopter pad on a navy vessel - as seen on HMSWM2. >> >> >> >> ..so I am afraid that Philippe has been merging images - again. >> >> >> >> >> >> Best regards >> >> >> >> Mads >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >