I like it too... I notice the author is on smugmug , as am I :-)
This line particularly struck me as apt (after the author , who shoots
in RAW, explains what he did in lightroom)
" I didn't add anything to the photograph that wasn't already there. I
simply brought out what the camera captured."
I think "unmanipulated" photo means to most photographer's and photo
editors, that you havent put Jacks head on Jills body,
moved the Empire State building to Paris, or turned Angelina Jolie into
an anorexic twig - to use some extreme examples.
So there is a bit of a semantic game going on. And I like what you
wrote, too, Igor - which is why I let the whole
of your mail sit in this one :-)
ann
Igor Roshchin wrote:
On Feb 16, 2011, at 3:34 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
Good article:
http://www.bhinsights.com/content/myth-unmanipulated-image.html
I like that article.
For those people who "like to see what an image looks like straight out
[of] the camera", just think for a moment how you are going to see it.
On a monitor? But that depends on the monitor and its calibration. And
even if you used a calibration tool, if you used it on a different
monitor (especially a different model), the result won't be exactly the
same.
Out of a printer? But it will come differently from different printers.
Did you say ICC profiles? But that is not much different from a display
calibration (see above).
Remember that even eye of different people will see the same picture
differently. More over, your own eye will see the same picture
differently, depending on your condition. Because your eye's "ICC" that
is loaded in your brain can be fooled very easily by many-many factors
(light around, your health, mood, etc.).
No matter what media you use (film, digital, human eye, ...) - you
always have a "transfer function" that has at least one calibration
(e.g. your eye), - and that calibration can depend on many conditions.
Igor
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