[Leica] IMG: Today at the bench

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

Thanks Ted. I'm glad you like the BW. That was my first use of a little 2/3 
camera that has "replaced" my M9. I plan to use it when I go on extended 
hikes... maybe...

As for changes to the first image, I still don't think it's quite there with 
the 
recent change. Sometimes I'm so happy with a capture that I do some quick 
dodging/burning/contrast and throw it up on the web. I did that with this 
image. 
So far so good.

Then several people asked me if this was one of those "HDR" images; a polite 
way 
of saying it didn't look real and seemed a bit "over cooked". So I started 
working on it a tad and I think it's a little better, but too dark in the 
foreground. I need to work on it a bit more and we'll see what happens. 
Heck, I 
might just go back to the first one!

But as you say, it's wonderful when people give comments and critiques, and 
most 
all I've encountered here do so, as you point out, from the heart. It's the 
kind 
of input you won't find anywhere else; part of what makes the LUG such a 
great 
group. So if more than two or three say the same thing, I think it's 
probably 
worth taking a look at again to try to see what they see. 

Again, thanks for chiming in. 
Bob
 Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.rgaphoto.com




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From: "tedgrant at shaw.ca" <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 9:27:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Today at the bench

Bob Adler showed:
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Today at the bench

One of the things that happens when one put's up a photograph of this 
beautiful 
nature and we begin seeing suggestions about how and what should be done or 
tried, we begin to have a "so called improvement by committee !" Something 
like 
too many cooks spoil the broth or whatever the saying is. No argument in 
many 
cases an offering from another member to lighten or darken; crop a little 
here 
or there; or other suggestion does improve the image. And we all take these 
suggestions as comments from the goodness in the heart of the sender.

But sometimes we must hang tough and satisfy our own innate instincts of 
what 
"we as the provider of the image likes best." Trust me, I'm the first to 
admit 
my instinct has been wrong more times than it's been right. I always weigh 
C&C's 
with welcome, simply because I just see the mage, shoot it, but I'm not the 
brightest at that extra technical edge many of you offer when it comes to 
squeezing the max quality out in making a print.

By the way this morning is the first time I saw this beautiful image in 
B&W!!!!! 
What can one say but, "Move over Ansel there's a new kid on the block!!" 
Another 
photograph to go big 40" X 60" inches because "it's a great big scene and 
demands to be viewed big for maximum impact!!

Just a passing thought or two.
cheers,
Dr. ted



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