Re: PF member's exhibit on March 22, 2014

[YGelmanPhoto <ygelmanphoto@xxxxxxxxx>]

The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated MARCH 22, 2014. 

Note that these refer to Last week's Forum.

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Don Roberts <don.roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The gallery this week is one of the more interesting I have seen in some time.

Yoram Gelman - Nice evocation of the art style of the area.  This works for me very well.  I am sure you could play with tone and contrast and get more versions but this works.

Don, Thank you.  I hope, however, you don't imply I searched through a menu of effects to produce my image.  All I did was slightly emphasize the effect, mostly through luminosity masking, that was already in the scene, and of course crop.  As we rode up in the gondola there were many good scenes -- but blocked by passengers and the gondola itself.  This image was one of the few I could use.

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Emily L. Ferguson <elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

        Yoram Gelman - Huangshan Pine No3

I have a weakness for shots like this.  They are among my ideas of lovely.

Emily, what can I say?  I understand your weakness.  In fact I was driven to work on this image by looking at another photographer's images taken in the same mountain range -- for which I had the same weakness.  

 

 

  

        Emily L. Ferguson - In the woods at sunrise

I am continuing to explore the possibilities of this technique as the sense of painting with light becomes more evident.  Most of the color is developed in the digital darkroom, drawing on Photoshop's myriad tools for affecting color and color balance.  My checking account is extremely relieved not to have to foot the bill for the many images that end up in the trash while I explore this.  While I admire the people who managed to do this sort of thing with film, I would not like to have to be one of them myself.

About this topic, of using Photoshop or other software to create a sense of painting with light, I'm a little put back.  Without casting any aspersions, I feel it's not quite legitimate.  After all, its not like using real stuff right on your palette that you mixed and put there yourself.  On the other hand, to use what is available is also an art.  So I'm torn, but I'm an old fogey and tend not to see valuable things during their changes.   Carry on, then.  I'm sure more good should come of it.