Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/01

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Panasonic DMC-FZ10 with Vario-Elmarit lens
From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:58:08 -0500

Eric Welch wrote:
> And how does sending your work to a lab any more "photographer-like"
> than doing it in a darkroom or in Photoshop?

The key difference is that more photographers are willing
to let someone else take over after the shot is taken with
film than with digital.  I understand the rationale for amateurs,
but personally, I have seen too many professional photographers
spend too much of time Photoshopping, inkjet printing, etc.
I hope they charge their clients for the post-processing time.
Otherwise, it is a sure way to make sure your annual income
does not rise much above $30K.

- - Phong




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Eric Welch
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 9:47 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Panasonic DMC-FZ10 with Vario-Elmarit lens
>
>
> Ruben,
>
> And how does sending your work to a lab any more "photographer-like"
> than doing it in a darkroom or in Photoshop?
>
> I guess it all has to do with where the creativity in the job is,
> right? And then picking the tools to do it more efficiently.
>
> Maybe there could be a market for Photoshop artists who can do custom
> work for clients they get to know just like a custom lab. In the end, a
> lab print can never be as "precisely perfect" as a real photo (I'm not
> talking inkjet prints here) that's been through the hands of a skilled
> Photoshop user. There is so much more fine control. I think the issue
> of quality lies there and not on which inkjet printer is the best. And
> in the future, custom labs will change the back end, but still offer
> essentially the same services. Just with different equipment to serve
> the needs of commercial/portrait/too- busy-to-print-their-own
> photographers.
>
> On Dec 1, 2003, at 1:52 AM, RUBEN BLĘDEL wrote:
>
> > they dont whant to suffer countless hours in front of phoshop " they
> > want to be photographers
>
> Eric Welch
> Carlsbad, CA
> http://www.jphotog.com
>
> "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.  The
> pessimist fears it is true."  -J. Robert Oppenheimer
>
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