Why Photoshop, Lightroom, etc?
Jun 5, 2014 12:24:03 #
aggiedad
Loc: Corona, ca
If you are just getting stated, a great program to use is Microsoft live photo gallery. It offers the ability to adjust lighting, contrast, sharpening, stitching for panoramas, cropping, and a host of other controls. And best of all, it's free. Other programs such as Lightroom, Photoshop, Photoshop elements, etc. Will do a great deal more, but Photo Gallery is a great place to begin, and may be all you really need.
Jun 5, 2014 12:37:09 #
Jun 5, 2014 12:38:14 #
TheDman wrote:
If painting is art, why do we need different brushes and paint colors?
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Jun 5, 2014 12:48:46 #
aggiedad wrote:
If you are just getting stated, a great program to use is Microsoft live photo gallery. It offers the ability to adjust lighting, contrast, sharpening, stitching for panoramas, cropping, and a host of other controls. And best of all, it's free. Other programs such as Lightroom, Photoshop, Photoshop elements, etc. Will do a great deal more, but Photo Gallery is a great place to begin, and may be all you really need.
Is that the one that comes with Office 2010? If so I have been using it, mostly the "auto correct" option. I also D/L Picassa. As someone else pointed out, I first need to know my camera, and the basic photography skill set. I do like the idea of just learning one PP program too. Lots to learn! :)
Thanks!
Andy
Jun 5, 2014 12:50:21 #
Jun 5, 2014 12:55:29 #
I think it is a valid question. My answer is to consider the art of film making. A movie can shoot for 60 days and be in post production (editing, color grading, etc.) for up to a year. In the past professional photographers often hand colored their prints and used a variety of darkroom techniques to enhance their prints. The average person didn't have access to this equipment or techniques, but now they do.
Jun 5, 2014 12:59:30 #
Jun 5, 2014 13:01:27 #
idaholover wrote:
Now that's art, and/or photography! Beautiful work!
In reference to Red Eye of course?
Jun 5, 2014 13:04:04 #
ksman38
Loc: Windsor, Virginia
AndyCE wrote:
Ok first let me say I have no intention of offendi... (show quote)
Andy,
In simplest terms, the exposure is the same as a latent image on film, post- processing is the final "print' after development and printing by either yourself or any of the old film finishers.
Keith
Jun 5, 2014 13:17:19 #
idaholover wrote:
In reference to Red Eye of course?
Thanks. Glad you liked it.
Jun 5, 2014 13:18:43 #
Thanks for starting an interesting read. I totally enjoyed it, even though some of it was repetitive.
Jun 5, 2014 13:20:36 #
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AndyCE wrote:
Andy, you are going to start are very large thread... (show quote)
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Jun 5, 2014 13:22:08 #
Brett Weston burned his negatives before he died. Why? He said no one else would print them the way he did. Who writes a novel without editing it? I edit most everything I shoot, even though I do what I can in camera to get the best image I can in the first place. Still, there's almost always an (improvement?) that can be done. Keep shooting and start editing; you'll see!
Jun 5, 2014 13:33:01 #
romanticf16
Loc: Commerce Twp, MI
In the era of film if you loaded a camera, took pictures, and did nothing else you would only have latent images sitting on a roll of acetate in your camera.
In the digital era the same actions would yield a memory card with 0's and 1's on it, until processed by the minimal software in the camera. In the first case you need a darkroom to develop and print your images. In the second example you need a computer and inkjet or chemical printer to produce images. In both examples the end result can be manipulated and modified by the skill of a technician. If not, you gamble on getting the off color; too light or too dark results we suffered thru with drugstore printing and faded color images.
In the digital era the same actions would yield a memory card with 0's and 1's on it, until processed by the minimal software in the camera. In the first case you need a darkroom to develop and print your images. In the second example you need a computer and inkjet or chemical printer to produce images. In both examples the end result can be manipulated and modified by the skill of a technician. If not, you gamble on getting the off color; too light or too dark results we suffered thru with drugstore printing and faded color images.
Jun 5, 2014 14:09:02 #
No camera works exactly as the human Eye/brain do. When you show someone a photo you are trying to communicate something; The wonder of nature, cuteness of a child, the energy of a race car. Post processing can help you say what you want to get across. Softening the image in a portrait can make it a romantic statement, while exaggerating sharpness can lend an edgy tone to it. One for a lover another for a criminal. The more controls you can master the greater your precision as an artist/communicator. Post processing is one of those tools.
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