Bob, Commercial photography has ALWAYS required skillful retouching. Go through any pre PS archive and you won't see an image that wasn't fixed in some way. Look in older magazines and brochures - major airbrush. Same with portrait and editorial. AZ Build a Lookaround! The Lookaround Book, 4th ed. Now an E-book. http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust > From: Robert Earnest <rge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, January 21, 2006 4:39 am > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Re: Another one bites the dust > I remember the frustrations of learning to how to make perfect photographs on film. > When a speck of dust on a black plex background required work at $750 hr on a scitex machine. Or most usually a reshoot. > > Times have changed, havent they? Now, fixing images is part of the process. You decide whether the speck is best taken out now or in post. Usually it is post. Because it is so easy. > > And I think that is the difference these days. You dont really have to learn how to make perfect pictures anymore. If you can learn to fix them. > > In other words, youre images dont have to BE perfect as long as you can make them LOOK perfect. > > R <-----handsomer than he looks... > >
