Beach Flowers
Feb 23, 2018 21:48:40 #
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Feb 24, 2018 07:39:17 #
Good heavens, I guess I'm being criticized for being creative. This picture wasn't part of an essay on beach vegetation. I think of photography as art and art, as you should know, is very individualistic. I'll take your comment as recognition of what I intended.
Feb 24, 2018 08:13:11 #
Please don't take it as a criticism, I didn't mean it that way. I recently made the change to digital and am exploring post processing myself. I'd love to see the raw shot next to the post to see what creativity you accomplished.
Feb 24, 2018 11:14:17 #
I no longer have the original but I can tell you what I used. In Topaz Impression 2, I used Georgia O'Keefe II. A similar effect can be achieved by using Photoshop DeNoise but there is something I like about the Topaz effect.
Feb 24, 2018 11:33:37 #
Feb 24, 2018 12:32:36 #
It does look like Okeefe's work. I appreciate it as such. As one new to digital I am anxious to learn the techniques and to choose what I want to use. The one class I took so far taught me to always keep the original. That way it can always be altered at a later date. I also keep all my photos as both jpg and nef.
Feb 24, 2018 13:49:33 #
Feb 24, 2018 13:53:42 #
I'm sure that the class you took is absolutely correct about saving originals. However, I'm 72 and I'm much more interested in what I can accomplish in my waning years that what I did in the past. One way to bolster that is to "clear the deck".
If you want to do everything from scratch, you probably have years ahead of you to learn how to do that. If you look at my picture recently posted, "Mirror, Mirror", you'll see something relatively straight from the camera with some slight light adjustment and cropping. I'm looking for the end result to please me. Much of what I take may be a decent picture but with no appeal. So I delete, delete, delete which is one of the joys of digital! Have fun...
If you want to do everything from scratch, you probably have years ahead of you to learn how to do that. If you look at my picture recently posted, "Mirror, Mirror", you'll see something relatively straight from the camera with some slight light adjustment and cropping. I'm looking for the end result to please me. Much of what I take may be a decent picture but with no appeal. So I delete, delete, delete which is one of the joys of digital! Have fun...
Feb 24, 2018 14:50:24 #
Hey, I am 75 and have several thousand images on film and digital. Storage is so cheap, why delete. I can't find the original negatives of the photos I shot of then unknown Madonna when she posed for a class at the NY SVA. I have almost all of the others. I posted some in the nude site on UHH.
Feb 24, 2018 15:11:57 #
forbescat wrote:
Good heavens, I guess I'm being criticized for being creative. This picture wasn't part of an essay on beach vegetation. I think of photography as art and art, as you should know, is very individualistic. I'll take your comment as recognition of what I intended.
I agree with you 100%.... I love your creative processing and your images and compositions are always winners!!!
Feb 24, 2018 16:46:46 #
Well, doc, more power to you. I'm afraid I wouldn't be all that upset if I lost every image I have. They just don't interest me.
And, Angela, thanks so much for your kind words!
And, Angela, thanks so much for your kind words!
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