Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Not sure I understand your drift. Thanks for considering me as an artist. This is fairly new territory for me - I'm finally taking pictures I like, primarily for my own enjoyment, and to share with those that like my work. for years I was a "hired gun" taking pictures for others strictly for pay. Tremendous feeling of freedom.

As far as your drift - I take a fairly contemplative approach, when I have the time - as in landscapes and other types of images where you have more than a moment to capture them - and I try to bury my first impulse to trip the shutter - I take note of everything that is in front of me BEFORE I even bring the camera to my eye. Sky, wind (ripples on water or moving foliage), cloud positions, etc - all the while my mind is reacting to what is going on before my eyes. I decide whether I can do a pano, or if I should try and capture the scene as a single shot. I am often prepared to do either - when I go for landscapes/cityscapes I almost always have my PC-E lenses - 24mm, 45mm and 85mm in the bag. this process is as automatic for me as breathing or putting one foot in front of the other to get from here to there - I don't think about it much. Once I have made my gear and settings choices the rest is quick. It has to be, since in many situations, the lighting and sky situations, especially at dawn or just before sundown, can change rapidly.

The camera records my vision. The image I want is already formed in my head before I press the shutter. Often, as in the SOOC pano I posted above, I know ahead of time about how many shots I am going to need to get what I want, and I know through previous testing, what the threshold of highlight exposure is and how close I can get to it without blowing the important stuff.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Thanks!

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Oh god, I hope not!

I've already sold a few of these, one of which was printed at 72" in height. I charged the buyer more than what a postcard would have cost.

But I know you intended your comment to be a compliment, and I took it as such - thanks!

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

My Original Question was about the power and utility of editing in camera, especially doing this in the field instead of using that valuable time to add to the contents of your memory card. The "drift" of my recent comments was that your recent posts, and that example you've brought out on several occasions, don't really advance that subject because I cannot see your doing that kind of work in camera. In fact, after all this discussion, I still see little application for that power other than snapshots. In the case of snapshots, I figure it would make more sense to do that editing in smart phone.