Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > On Apr 19, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Leonard Taupier wrote: > >> Here is an example of a bird I have only seen in dense brush, and >> rare at that. I would not remove the tangled brush as it would >> change it's habitat. I watched this bird for 15 minutes and it never >> came out of the brush, just flew from one bush to another. It's a >> White Throated Sparrow. >> >> http://tinyurl.com/2uydoz > > > if you wanted to use Photoshop to truly serve the bird...you would add > dense brush, to make the bird less visible. > > Steve > > >> >> >> Len >> >> >> >> On Apr 19, 2008, at 10:29 AM, wildlightphoto@earthlink.net wrote: >> >>> Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Doug! What kind of Photoshopping are we talking about here which >>>> distorts >>>> the truth of the bird and its habitat? >>> >>> If image editing removes the clutter of dense brush so that the >>> bird appears to be in the open it's been moved from one habitat to >>> another. Some birds will never be seen away from dense brush, some >>> are typically open-country birds and would not be found in dense >>> brush. In the case of the Cardinal, as Len explained, the bird may >>> be found in either dense brush or singing in the open. >>> >>> Doug Herr >>> Birdman of Sacramento >>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > best, Steve > Thing is for years and before Photoshop standard bird and other animal photography has been with very long lenses and picking a moment when there is nothing of course; between YOU and THEM. A brief moment I'd think when you had them in the clear. The fact is this is an abstraction. In real life you're not going to see a bird like that as if your right on top of it. Its going to be far away and in the thicket. Rhino's too I think. I say all this because there is a mind set now that photography became "fake" when it went digital. And I don't think that's the case. Photography was never real. We cant trust the reality of a photo now because of Photoshop? No we never could. There was airbrush. I owned one. Mark William Rabiner markrabiner.com