Editing editing editing... Sometimes it is half of the reason behind a great final shot. www.herabell.com A Painterly effect. I had created this action few years ago. Used it few times on some of my client orders. Today I went back to it. Voila... Do you like it? Yeah? or Neah?
It is lovely! I like the style.
ReplyDeleteAnd what you are saying here, it amplifies what I was saying a little earlier, about editing in general. As you said, "Editing editing editing... Sometimes it is half of the reason behind a great final shot."
It is truly so. Great job of editing! :-)
Oshi Shikigami in the past it was all about your darkroom techniques. Today it is Photoshop. At the end nothing much changed. Thank you Oshi.
ReplyDeleteAmen Hara. In the darkroom age, you did not have people boasting about how the did no 'editing' to their photos. And did not think it was 'cool' to have dust spots, or processing errors. Just say'n...
ReplyDeleteOshi Shikigami yup. You and I we both know it took great skills to do a great darkroom print by choosing your contrast filters right for your enlarger, how long you exposed your negative under that enlarger, where did you Doge and burn,, which darkroom solution you chose, the amount of mixing them. The time of leaving your print in the batches. The amount of washing of that print. Let alone when you started choosing the right negative. Then in the darkroom choosing the right printing paper.
ReplyDelete/me nods enthusiastically!
ReplyDeleteAnd as for grain.. it started by choosing the film. Then you could even add more gain the way you developed that negative. It you shook longer the negative in the can ester A certain way you could create more grain. if you pushed or pulled that negative or slide it had different results.
ReplyDeleteI now feel like a dynosaure in a museum.
Welcome to the club. I literally wrote a book on processing. Over 100 pages, and it was translated to 6 languages.
ReplyDeleteNow it is an 'arcane craft', practiced only by the 'illuminated' few "artists" that have raised any form of "inscrutable image" to new heights. The less it has the look of reality or quality the better!
Oshi Shikigami but my old knowledge of darkroom and exposing your negatives correctly always helps me my today's imagery. I use the PS only as a dry darkroom. Faster and easier.
ReplyDeleteYes, I find most all I need can be done in Lightroom, but the heavy stuff goes to Photoshop. :-)
ReplyDeletewithout any doubt: yey! Wonderful work Hera! Can you share some tips and tricks?
ReplyDeleteMichael Mossiagin thank you Michael .
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