Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dumped quite a few that might have been useful had the tools been available :-) Ph > Le 5 janv. 2017 ? 12:41, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> a ?crit : > > How much post processing did you do on transparency film? > > john > > -----Original Message----- > > Philippe hi! always delighted to be in agreement. > To split hairs "post processing" is what? > Its processing isn't it? We're making the picture. > Its not something that's happening later is it? > Afterwards we email it or print it. To me that's post. > "Post" to me means "after the fact" but what do I know? > > I may think that because I think people think processing the pictures, > Photoshop or Lightroom work is like some extra special thing you don't > really need to do. Like in the old days when we brought our film to the > drug store and they made snap shots for us. > Who needs a darkroom I got Walgreens? > > > > On 1/5/17 4:03 AM, "Philippe" <photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com> wrote: > >> 46 years after I developed my first BW film, I totally concur. > > Post >> processing is a taste enhancer without which I at least, would end up >> with so much less sapid photographs. > > And I?m happy like a painter or a cook to have >> such a palette and variety of tools available. > > Amities > Philippe > > > > >> Le 5 >> janv. 2017 ? 09:42, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> a ?crit : >> >> Well >> Ted! I think it works like you go in the darkroom and you try to make >> the thing look like it looked and it comes out in the end not quite >> what you >> >> expected but you like it better anyway. We do the best we can. >> I don't know >> about you but some of my better pictures come from tricky negatives >> which were not so easy to print. You're coming out with something you >> don't quite expect. But it all works at great in the end. Pretty soon >> I forget what the thing was really supposed to look like. Or what plan >> A was. >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information