Digital BW, The Print

on 7/26/2002 11:37 PM, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com at
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

>>>> What, exactly do YOU use PS for?  Why do you need to
>>> "manipulate"/"process"
>>>> the image?
>>> 
>>> I use it for every image I print. You surely don't think you can get
>>> such nice images right out of a camera, do you?
>> 
>> Er, I do.
> 
> Not possible Austin. In your entire lifetime, you would never come upon
> a perfect, flawless landscape that couldn't be improved, however
> slightly by a tweak in photoshop. Even Ansel Adams, would have loved
> photoshop. He was well aware of the digital revolution and stated many
> times that he wish he could participate in it.


Unless you can light your photograph from scratch, and have most equipment
you need at your disposal, including crew, then selective lightening and
darkening, and curves etc are essential to making a fine photograph and not
a technical reproduction.

It's very very rare that nature provides perfection without a bit of help
from a visionary.  
 
-Bruce

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