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03/21/2005 07:00:15 PM · #26 |
| I'm lucky, like many photographers out there I had a camera in my hands long before I had access to photoshop. I love what I can do in Photoshop, but at the same time I understand that I need to start out with something worthwhile before I can improve it. I still do my B&W printing in a Dark Room, all of my color rolls off my Epson 2200 (love it!!! Find a way to get one if you haven't). Now that my shameless plug is in I'll get back to the question at hand. Photoshop for me has been an invaluable tool- which is what photoshop is meant to be a tool. Photography is about capturing a moment. Photoshop is about expressing that moment as you want people to see it. I believe that at some point you go beyond Photograpy into Digital Art, but that is a matter for another thread- although if you search the archives there are probably many. |
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03/21/2005 07:07:47 PM · #27 |
Like vxpra, I had no idea what Photoshop was when I took up this hobby. Isoon, however, realized that I need to do something about the quality of my outputs. To be more specific, some good advise on on of the critiques I received said post processing is part of the game. Since then I have used it to some great advantage ... but only to make a good pic beter. I believe even a bad pic can be made to look like something in PS and good for it. Why not? The art factor always comes into play.
My honest feeling all being said and done..... Focus on taking good pics, make them beter. PS is a mere tool for improving something good.
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03/21/2005 07:27:48 PM · #28 |
If you want a target to flame/bash about using photoshop too much, I'm wide open. My latest entry in the stock photography challenge is probably one of the most--if not the most--"played around with" looking. On that one, I was aiming for a particular look, but in general, my shots are extemely lacking in just about everything. My only excuse is that, as a college student (in Walla Walla, WA, I have trouble finding the time to invest in photography that I want. I have a lot of fun just goofing off in photo shop and creating random stuff (//photos.whitties.com/gallery/Abstract-Photoshop-Images and //photos.whitties.com/gallery/Personal-Favorites) and I think that that love of goofing off spreads into my photography. My apologies to those this offends. This summer intend to focus more on honing the "original skill" of photography for myself--that is, the skills that hold true for both the digital and analog mediums (composition, lighting, etc.)
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03/21/2005 07:37:57 PM · #29 |
| There are so many photographic tools, techniques, methods, and opportunities to create a vision to share. I am convinced that a novice should only start a photographic journey with a good version of any software and a scanner, and then find a camera only when it is necessary. |
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03/21/2005 07:53:05 PM · #30 |
I don't think a serious photographer uses Photoshop to fix faults or create an artifice from a natural subject, although both both can be done. He uses it to optimize an image. If he is a purist out of the film era, he may choose to optimize the image in camera before he shoots it.
He can set a custom white balance, choose a nice film-like colour matrix or change ISO on the fly (try that with film!). If he watches his histogram he can reshoot an exposure gone wrong on the spot -and get it right.
What we do in post-processing, in Photoshop, is not all that different, except that we can do it sitting down looking at a large screen while petting the dog.
Message edited by author 2005-03-21 19:54:05.
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03/22/2005 01:27:38 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by undieyatch:
There are so many photographic tools, techniques, methods, and opportunities to create a vision to share. I am convinced that a novice should only start a photographic journey with a good version of any software and a scanner, and then find a camera only when it is necessary. |
By your won words you prove that those thoughts make up an artist and not a photographer. |
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