Wondering how many photographers use minimal if any P.P.
Mar 17, 2014 21:40:25 #
What do you do if you are a photojournalist and not allowed to PP your shots????
Mar 17, 2014 21:42:47 #
Neubee wrote:
What do you do if you are a photojournalist and not allowed to PP your shots????
Simple...Point, click, send, and live with results.
Mar 17, 2014 21:42:47 #
Neubee wrote:
What do you do if you are a photojournalist and not allowed to PP your shots????
Simple...Point, click, send, and live with results.
Mar 17, 2014 22:17:53 #
I will only respond the the original poster's comment - poster number two should have started his own thread.
The only PP I do regularly is to convert from RAW to JPG. However, when posting to a forum, I always do a little PP. That's only because I feel I have to tweak things to meet "accepted forum standards" rather than let it stand on it's own. For example, I feel I'm balancing exposure to even out the "underexposed" and "overexposed" commenters, not the actual exposure.
The only PP I do regularly is to convert from RAW to JPG. However, when posting to a forum, I always do a little PP. That's only because I feel I have to tweak things to meet "accepted forum standards" rather than let it stand on it's own. For example, I feel I'm balancing exposure to even out the "underexposed" and "overexposed" commenters, not the actual exposure.
Mar 17, 2014 22:39:11 #
Count me in the minimal PP camp. I have both Elements 12 and Lightroom 5 and I will use them if I've taken a shot that is really crappy and I have no other option to salvage a moment I really want to keep. Otherwise, if the pic is crappy and I can live without it, I trash it.
Mar 17, 2014 23:41:38 #
f8lee wrote:
I saw a presentation by a photographer last year a... (show quote)
^^^YEP!
Art really IS in the eye of the beholder.
And people find beauty in different aspects of the same thing.
I have ALWAYS liked to push whichever camera I was using to it's technological limits, or perhaps I should say MAXIMIZE the usage of the camera. All in the idea of capturing a scene or image to the best of my ability USING that camera.
In some cases that meant using fast black and white film in low light, in others, a wide angle lens with distortion correction turned off.
It is as much "FUN" for me to take the best possible picture in camera is it is for others to create something other than what their camera captured on a computer.
Different strokes. ;)
Mar 17, 2014 23:45:26 #
Count me in the minimal PP group...I recently bought Elements 12 but it's not something I enjoy doing, so unless I really want the shot, it's either good enough to keep or it gets deleted. Once I learn Elements a little better my opinion may change but right now I see PP as a sometimes necessary evil. Hard to shake 35 yrs of "get it right in the camera".
Mar 17, 2014 23:56:43 #
Mar 18, 2014 00:50:45 #
kenArchi
Loc: Seal Beach, CA
I Hate It! Too time consuming and it doesn't look any better than sending in the film and getting back good looking prints.
And I spent $thousands$ on computers Cameras lenses and programs and upgrades and on and on and on........
And I spent $thousands$ on computers Cameras lenses and programs and upgrades and on and on and on........
Mar 18, 2014 05:38:03 #
Actually there are several ways to do post processing, one way I am exploring now is to use a lot of it, but make it look minimal or nonexistent, the only way you could tell would be to see the original. Then there is the extreme effects that I think everybody says they dislike, but may be achieved merely with a few clicks (but can also be very extensive and time consuming), and then there is the kind that uses as little as possible and as unnoticeable as possible, which most condone.
Blue Spark wrote:
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Mar 18, 2014 05:57:15 #
Bob Andrews
Loc: Scotland
Define minimum processing? I cringe every time I read that someone does minimum processing or HAS to get it right in camera. What happens if an important image - a bride & groom - is captured with a -1 underexposure? Do you bin it and tell the couple that the important image is binned or do you ask someone who is skilled to process it. It is impossible to get it right in camera everytime so a darkroom or LR or Photoshop is your friend.
Mar 18, 2014 05:58:39 #
i am over 60 and shoot in a RAW format with a nikon d7000 and d700 ..therefore it always needs a bit of tweaking ..i usually sharpen the photo and then reduce any noise..if I'm shooting portraits i edge sharpen eyesÂ…add a bit of definition ..sortof like buying a dress off the rack and then having it tailored to fit you perfectly...
Mar 18, 2014 06:01:28 #
TheDman
Loc: USA
Rbrylawski wrote:
Count me in the minimal PP camp. I have both Elements 12 and Lightroom 5 and I will use them if I've taken a shot that is really crappy .
Then you're missing the point of pp completely. It's actually shocking to see how many people here think it's for "fixing" bad photos. That screams ignorance.
Mar 18, 2014 06:19:24 #
For the record I an 62. 100% of my images get some form of PP. Sometimes it is as simple as a little capture sharpening, clarity and vibrance (micro-contrast and color saturation for colors other than flesh tones). When I shoot in challenging situations - low light/high iso gets some noise reduction and careful sharpening - high contrast situations, I expose to the right, which usually means I preserve highlights at the expense of the rest of the image, then I make exposure, shadow and contrast adjustments. When shooting flowers with vivid colors I individually adjust colors to avoid color channel clipping, and so one.
I have not seen an image that a photographer "got right in the camera" that couldn't benefit from additional enhancement in PP. Not a single one. I am a mentor, and I shoot close to 75000 images a year. I see a lot of images.
I have not seen an image that a photographer "got right in the camera" that couldn't benefit from additional enhancement in PP. Not a single one. I am a mentor, and I shoot close to 75000 images a year. I see a lot of images.
Mar 18, 2014 06:33:10 #
I am under 60. I shoot 99% of the time in manual. I don't do any PP beyond cropping, some sharpening.
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