Digital BW, The Print

Clayton, I do this all the time. Its my workflow. No matter how good the
original photograph is, I can always make it better in Photoshop.  What
in the world is wrong with photo illustration? John Paul Capinigro and
Jerry Ulesmann do it VERY well!

Jerry



Clayton Jones wrote:
> 
> Alan,
> 
> >>>>
> Some people build an image from countless layers that they diddle with
> endlessly.  I call that digital illustration. Do you want to do that?
> >>>>
> 
> Isn't this a dangerous generalization?  How much diddling with layers
> does it take to cross the line?
> 
> I have a 6x7 neg of the St. Marks lighthouse on the Florida panhandle
> coast (taken in 1987) which I was never able to print because the sun
> side of the lighthouse matched the background sky tone almost exactly
> (didn't think to use a filter - duh).  I theoretically could have
> masked it on the neg with magenta dye but it was too small and I never
> seemed to have a knack for brush skills anyway, so I gave up on ever
> getting a good print from it.
> 
> In PS I was able to zoom in on a pixel level and find that faint edge
> of the lighthouse.  It took nearly 3 hours but I was able to
> completely separate the background sky from the lighthouse, trees and
> other foreground objects.  Putting it on a separate layer, I was able
> to bring it down in value just below the lighthouse bright side, plus
> add some gradients for edge and corner burning and so on.  After 15
> years I finally got a good print from this neg I've always liked.
> 
> Does this cross the line into digital illustration?  I really like the
> print because it conveys the mood of the original scene.  To me it's a
> miracle after a 15 year wait.  This is the sort of thing that thrills
> me about digi printing.
> 
> Any other miracle stories?
> 
> Regards, - cj
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