Re: My Thoughts
| March 25, 2015 09:08PM |
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Hansel7470 Wrote:
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> Ever since photographs have been taken,
> film has been developed with burning &
> dodging.
IIRC, film was exposed for the shadows and developed for the highlights (or is it the other way 'round?) by those following the Adams / Weston "Zone System". Prints have been made using burning & dodging to darken or lighten certain areas, but some well-known photographers exposed part of a print using one negative and another part using a different negative - a crude and time-consuming trial-and-error equivalent of what Photoshop and similar software allows to be done more quickly and accurately - and without all those foul-smelling chemicals.
> So with that said, I think touching up lights
> and colors are cool, but 'photoshopping'
> (clone stamping, etc.) isn't cool.
Not even to remove scratches and dust spots, Hansel?
My newest software does this fairly well during the scanning process - especially the dust removal. And I vaguely remember reading that one very famous and highly respected landscape photographer had a large library of dramatic cloud negatives that he used to liven up the skies of some otherwise rather ordinary scenes using the "double printing" method described above. ...
"De gustibus non disputandem."
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> Ever since photographs have been taken,
> film has been developed with burning &
> dodging.
IIRC, film was exposed for the shadows and developed for the highlights (or is it the other way 'round?) by those following the Adams / Weston "Zone System". Prints have been made using burning & dodging to darken or lighten certain areas, but some well-known photographers exposed part of a print using one negative and another part using a different negative - a crude and time-consuming trial-and-error equivalent of what Photoshop and similar software allows to be done more quickly and accurately - and without all those foul-smelling chemicals.
> So with that said, I think touching up lights
> and colors are cool, but 'photoshopping'
> (clone stamping, etc.) isn't cool.
Not even to remove scratches and dust spots, Hansel?
My newest software does this fairly well during the scanning process - especially the dust removal. And I vaguely remember reading that one very famous and highly respected landscape photographer had a large library of dramatic cloud negatives that he used to liven up the skies of some otherwise rather ordinary scenes using the "double printing" method described above. ...
"De gustibus non disputandem."
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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