|:| Well, photography is not seen the way it was before. The way it is seen today , is a different approach towards photography which for me, although it is not my approach, is as valid as any approach. Let say that we are in the Photoshop and alikes era. For the type of adjustments you mentioned, no one needs Photoshop and alikes. This is the kind of discussion I have over and over not only at home, but also with other photographer mates I have. I have Photoshop CS2 installed in my machine, along with PhtoImpact – a great digital darkrrom tool ( although it has more graphics oriented features I do not use ) – Gimp and FSIV. For my work – which is not better or worse than others work – I use The Gimp, FSIV and sometimes PhotoImpact – very very few times – and never Photoshop. Why ? I do not need it. <br /> <br />As told before in other threads, I believe that a good capture is the one you take carefully – light measurement, compostion, etc etc etc – and does not need any further manipulation on the digital darkroom, unless some minor adjustments like contrast, white balance and in some few cases, some curves adjustments. Even so, these adjustments will not save a bad capture. Photography its sometimes a time consuming hobby. Let me tell you that when capturing images, I do not take never only one capture of a subject, but always 3 times, with different light measurements , and sometimes composition by the inch. What I see nowadays, is that some photographers just do not care how the capture is taken, as they know that they can save any capture with further manipulation on the digital darkroom. Let’s say that after being photographers, they are graphic artists as well and in sometimes, they “paint” in the digital darkroom. As said, its an approach as valid as mine. <br /> <br />Once I was commented on a photograph – Arcada –
http://www.skinbase.org/rate.php?skins=30452 - that I reloaded today just for better understanding - where a fellowmate – a good photographer, let me say to you - told me that, it was ok, nice everything and bla bla bla, but he said that the dark side of it was too dark and that the capture was worth further work with Photoshop. <br /> <br />Well I was amazed with that statement and told him that, if the dark side was really dark, was because it was dark indeed in real life and at the moment I captured it, and even so, I was able to capture a bit of detail in the shadow areas, wich for myself it’s very important. And after that I just stayed looking to the capture trying to figure it out, where further manipulation was needed with Photoshop. Until today…. <br /> <br />Well, I just ask for you to see the referred capture and let me know what would you do to improve it…with or without Photoshop, as anything is perfect and this capture is not perfect as well. <br /> :Happy |O|
