Of course. Adjusting shadow and highlight level as well as color
temperature, hue and sharpness -- to name just a few -- are normal
parts of the digital workflow. It's like picking paper contrast,
focusing your enlarger and determining paper exposure and development
time. One must do these things to obtain a quality image, particularly
if you shoot RAW. If you shoot jpeg, you're leaving all those factors
up to the dumb camera.
Paul
On Oct 4, 2005, at 8:04 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
Kenneth Waller wrote:
It's akin to choosing the correct film and exposing it accurately.
The camera is too dumb to do that perfectly, >and it can't read the
photographer's mind.
Paul
I'll agree with Ann on this. When I adjust black/white point, its an
admission that I've come up short as a photographer. Coming from my
slide shooting background, my goal is to get it right in the camera.
YMMV
Kenneth Waller
Yup.
Well, what I really meant to say to Butch, I
guess, is that it looks ok to me - conforming to
my
memory of the scene... and I do tend not to show
images unless I feel I got it right without
doing anything more radical than cropping,
shifting the overall color balance a tad, taking
out
specks of "dust" which may be specks of stuff that
exist in real life but are distracting.
IF I had done the eye dropper thing though, would
I still be able to claim at photo.net that
the image was unmanipulated?
ann
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Subject: Re: GESO: stuff from my bus/train trip
Hi Ann,
I don't think anyone would say that adjusting black point in a
digital image is manipulation. There's no such thing as a "pure"
digital image. The camera is manipulating the image according to
preset parameters. The photographer certainly can adjust those same
parameters to achieve the vision he or she had hoped to record. In
fact, I would say the photographer is obligated to fine tune a
digital image. It's akin to choosing the correct film and exposing it
accurately. The camera is too dumb to do that perfectly, and it can't
read the photographer's mind.
Paul
Butch Black wrote:
Nice series Ann. I particularly liked bus stop in Redmond Ca. and
morning
coffee.
Thanks, Butch - I like to hear which ones stand
out to different folk.
I liked the space needle but think it could use a bit of contrast.
Try using the black eyedropper on the needle if you are using PS,
Elements,
or most of the other image editing programs.
Butch
hmmm I think that would fall under the heading of
manipulation and I
like not to do that... I see what you mean,
though, but just barely.
I use photoshop elements 2.0, for the record.
never used eyedropper tool.
ann
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