Re: Colorado Steam with Fall Colors-->Photos of Last Week's Charters

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Having been criticized myself here on the NGDF for
> some overly processed images, I'm afraid I do have
> to agree with Greg - the colors in a few of your
> posts are a little too intense, even for above
> 9,000 feet in the Rockies - just slightly
> oversaturated, IMHO.  See the third and fifth
> images on John West's post at
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> for what appear to my amateur eyes - and on an
> uncalibrated monitor - to be bright, crisp
> realistic photos without the slightly-too-blue,
> slightly-too-yellow intensity that Greg pointed
> out, above.

I'm jumping into this only because Russo referenced some of my stuff. I am a big fan of Kevin's work, and in my view he is developing a very personal style which I rather like. It is perhaps somewhat non-traditional, but it reflects the capabilities of the new technology. Since Kevin and I are often on the same photo charters, I often check his work. I have my own more traditional stye but Kevin's work often influences me to do some things a bit differently.. And I think the popularity of his images suggests others like his style as well. There is a fine line between reality and unreality, and the current image post processing programs make it easy to explore that margin....and perhaps go beyond it occasionally. I'm an old timer who grew up with Kodachrome, so my approach is very conventional and Greg and Russo are also old timers like me. But in its day Kodachrome was controversial because its colors tended to be more saturated than say Anscochrome. But Kodachrome defined a new normal. Now we are dealing with digital technology which creates all kinds of new possibilities. Young whipper snappers like Kevin are on the cutting edge.

JBWX