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

Don Roberts <don.roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:06:43 -0500



    Nothing implied, Yoram, and nothing should be inferred.  I like the
    shot.

    Don 

    
    On 3/29/14, 4:34 PM, YGelmanPhoto
      wrote:

    
        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.