Re: [pinhole-discussion] wondering about photoshop sharpening
--- jaugu...@adelphia.net wrote: Oh my, she's got a split personality! Bad Lisa: Lisa the photographer spends her weekends in a ..snip.. Good Lisa: Lisa the employee spends her workdays in front of a computer ..snip.. Nah, nah, it's real Lisa and work Lisa -- leave Jekell Hyde out of this. -- p __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Re: [pinhole-discussion] wondering about photoshop sharpening
OK, I'm gonna be the PHOTOSHOP BAD person. I don't understand why so many people think working on a computer is easier than working in the darkroom. They will spend hours and hours dodging and burning and sharpening in front of a monitor, while complaining about how hard it is to do it in the darkroom. Why should I sit in front of a computer for hours to do what I can do sitting in a darkroom for hours? Some people are hesitant to make the switch because it is not a necessary switch. It is just a preference. I wouldn't even contemplate doing my photography on a computer. Computers are not part of my personal idea of myself as a photographer. Lisa the photographer spends her weekends in a darkroom, with chemicals on her hands and old mixed tapes playing on the old tape player. Lisa the employee spends her workdays in front of a computer screen sizing images for the web, typing and surfing. And back to Jean's original question: A pinhole camera can be made out of a box and a piece of aluminum foil. I'd like to see someone make a homemade SLR in one afternoon. With the cost of one SLR camera I can make a bazilion different pinhole cameras. That's one of the many reasons pinhole is different than traditional photography. And tell your sister that the tradition of blurry pictures is so old it's not even questioned in the art world any more, not even when done with a good camera. I of course am not saying blurry makes a picture good art, but it doesn't, in and of itself, make it a bad picture. That's just old school art speak for ya. Lisa I've arrived at the conclusion that *any* photographic technique can be duped digitally and don't understand why some people are hesitant to make the switch. Just remember to use your best lense and take the *sharpest* photo you can. Everything else is keyboard-frierndly. regards, joseph wonder why we don't just take traditional lens photographs and smear them a little and print them out to look like pinhole work. ___ Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML Pinhole-Discussion mailing list Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??? unsubscribe or change your account at http://www.???/discussion/
Re: [pinhole-discussion] wondering about photoshop sharpening
I've arrived at the conclusion that *any* photographic technique can be duped digitally and don't understand why some people are hesitant to make the switch. Just remember to use your best lense and take the *sharpest* photo you can. Everything else is keyboard-frierndly. regards, joseph wonder why we don't just take traditional lens photographs and smear them a little and print them out to look like pinhole work.
[pinhole-discussion] wondering about photoshop sharpening
I'm sure we've all thought about this. First of all, I also sharpen just about every scan, no matter what the source of the original image. The scans just don't match the sharpness of the original print without it in my opinion. As for combining pinhole and digital, I guess I justify myself with Adams the negative is the composition, the print is the performance I can't get the same images (or the same experience doing it) with regular cameras, and having been out of daily experience with the darkroom for fifteen years, I'm a pretty lousy performer with traditional methods any more, particularly contact printing paper negatives, but with a digital scan of that negative, I can get full range, burned and dodged, dust and scratch free prints, more honestly expressing what I want and what the negative holds. I imagine this discussion probably came up when Muddy Waters started playing the blues on an electric guitar. Nick Message: 6 Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:53:08 -0800 From: Jean Hanson jhan...@pon.net To: pinhole-discussion-request@p at ??? pinhole-discussion@p at ??? Subject: [pinhole-discussion] wondering Reply-To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??? About the message two days ago; a member took a pinhole image, sharpened it in Adobe or a digital method, and printed it out. I wonder why we don't just take traditional lens photographs and smear them a little and print them out to look like pinhole work. -- -- Nick Dvoracek dvora...@uwosh.edu Director of Media Services Voice: 920-424-7363 University of Wisconsin OshkoshFax: 920-424-7324 http://idea.uwosh.edu/media_services/home.html http://idea.uwosh.edu/nick/handouts.htm
