[Leica] 2500 ISO

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Subject: Re: [Leica] 2500 ISO


Ted Grant wrote:
>A sort of point. You may re-call a few weeks ago I had several photographs
>sold for $750.00 each. A couple more have gone since, one of them a 13X19
>flower picture shot with a 20D and Leica 80mm 1.4 lens and everything set 
>on
>automatic! :-) Just look through viewfinder, focus and go "click!" So maybe
>you might understand why I have so much difficulty dealing with all the
>technical stuff.<<<

 Douglas Herr wrote:
>IMHO, the automatic settings will do fine 90% to 95% or even 98% of the 
>time. The technical tweaking is for those of us who are anal about the last 
>2%. of the time.<<<

Hi Doug,
I should say, as auto simple as I try to make it sound, I do try extra 
tweaking at times. But along the line of "auto tweak." If I don't like what 
I see with this method then I undo and have another look attempting to tweak 
by eye and what I like. Much like burn or dodging in the darkroom. Which I 
have found on many occasions my doing it rather than allowing the "auto 
tweak" the photograph is much better looking.

I'm all for this extra touch up as you lads do, certainly when I see I've 
made an improvement doing it myself. Maybe it's my fear of screwing 
everything up that I keep going back to the "keep it simple stupid" method 
of auto everything! :-( I keep using the, what I may call... "weak excuse... 
I'm a photographer not an electronics technician" to cover my lack in 
understanding the ever confusing methods of software. Yeah I know that's a 
coward's way out! :-(

But I do try and when I become more confused,  I throw up my hands up and 
return to... "shoot JPEG and set everything by auto pilot!" :-( Yeah I know 
that's still the cowards way out! :-(

Richard offered:
 > Ted: here's your answer!!!!
> > Your 90% effort, heck, 10% effort, is better than the best the we 
> > mortals
> can manage. So we want to tweak that 10% to, say, 11.7632%, to be :more: 
> competitive with your stuff!<<<<<

Richard mon ami, you are far too kind sir. I'm just one lucky shooter!

thanks again,
ted