On Tue, September 28, 2010 03:36, Dan Mitchell wrote: >>> >>>> The Great Clock -- nice angle, and I like the >>>> juxtaposition with the statue. Bright side of the clock face is >>>> overexposed for my taste. I would have straightened it, I think; or >>>> else gone a little the OTHER way. >>> >>> It was a work-in-progress. See my new version at ? >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/danmdan/4443033272/ >> >> I definitely like that better. > > > It is amazing what can be done, now we have digital photography. Version > 2 was obtained from version 1 using Photoshop Elements 8 in an Apple Mac. > Changes that I could never have done using film. I have no problem with > doing this - to me it is the end result which is all important, not the > equipment or the intermediate processing. To paraphrase a well known > saying - " ? from today all film photography is dead" :-) A lot of these things are things that could be and were done in the darkroom -- but only for high-end advertising printing, or by people working for the really top artists. I knew about contrast masks for taming prints from color slides, for example, but I never even tried to use them (the barrier of making a printing project into a multi-day effort was more than I could climb; though, if you use masks at all frequently, you can devote a session to making a batch of masks, and the next session or two to printing using them, and not actually have spent that much extra time). And now I can do them in 5 minutes at my computer, and I, too, am very happy! -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
