Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/05/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 8:16 PM Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > So, those great flower pics...they have been digitally altered? OK, a > little pollen I could understand, but a tear in the leaf...a tear that > Mother Nature put there? > > Ken > Digitally altered? I crop the image, I rotate it slightly to keep the leaf from trailing off the frame, I spot out a bit of dirt or pollen. Sometimes there?s a little rust on a petal. Away with it. Yeah, even a tiny tear gets mended. I shoot all my images available light, hand held. No black cloths shield the eye from the background. Conversely, if an aged bud is in the shot, it stays. A spider web? Stays. A little ice burn on a Camellia? It might stay, like the one I posted the morning after our snow this year. These flower portraits get a good once over, just like portraits of my wife, my grandkids or even my cats. I want the subject to look good. Much truer than focus stacking or building panoramas from multiple exposures, or even making black and white images of color scenes. If you shoot a picture, the camera digitally alters the light into an image. So the short answer to your question is yes. SonC > > On 5/13/2018 2:48 PM, Sonny Carter via LUG wrote: > > On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 1:43 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > > > >> Right on. I do not even have Photoshop anymore. LR is more than enough. > If > >> I have to spend 1/2 hour manipulating an image in a piece of software to > >> make it look decent, then I have screwed up at the time of taking the > >> picture. > > > > My mileage varies! > > > > I use PS because LR doesn?t have an adequate way to spot images, and > > flowers almost always have stray pollen, dirt or minute tears that could > > use attention. I spend very little time ?fixing? images, but every shot > I > > post gets at least a once over. I also prefer the solutions available in > > PS for straightening falling buildings. The nice LR tools are all > present > > in PS in camera raw filter. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA