Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I hold the view that I should be able to match any of my photographs to the neg and there should be no difference in content - ie. removing or inserting objects that were not part of the original neg. I believe dodging/burning is part of the process as is under/overexposure. I do not have a problem with cropping, sometimes the moment does not allow for tight framing. I very nearly gave up photography years ago as a result of not realising that all three process and a chance to tweak any of these - ie. exposure, neg development and printing were equally important in the scheme of arriving at the result you visualised during or before taking the image. I would send my film to the one hour street corner lab and be totally shattered when I picked up the prints - it was never how I saw it at the time I took the photograph. I set up my own darkroom and have recently switched to Photoshop instead (time saving) and the creative control has given me new hope - ie. able to recreate exactly what I saw/how I saw and share these images with others. (Have to say I am struggling a bit with my Leica, great to use but my results are awful, I will never give up, the battle is half the joy.) Karina > Cameras, films, enlargers, developers, darkroom > manipulations are all tools for photography. Just like > a painter with brush, canvas and paint. They all > started with a clear sheet of blank medium. So why > photography has to be rigidly controlled as to what is > ethical or not. > > --- Eric <ericm@pobox.com> wrote: > > B.D.: > > > > >it's okay to manipulate the bejayzus out of an > > image...as > > >long as you do it in the darkroom? ;-) > > > > I don't believe it ethical to do any manipulations > > beyond that which > > presents the photo as the photographer envisions it, > > regardless of whether > > done in the darkroom or in photoshop. :) > > > > > > Eric > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > http://games.yahoo.com/ > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html