Remember the posting which started "Overnight it snowed..." and how the image I posted was a bit lacking?
Well, here it is again after a little digital darkroom work.
The offending roof has been removed and the colours have been enhanced to give it a bit more vibrancy.
posted by Ken @ 2:33 AM
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Ken is Ken Moore and he has been working with PC's since they first came out - and with other computers for much longer than that! He has been responsible for installation, maintenance and development of computers and computer systems for many years and having spent many years as R&D Manager with a leading midlands software company is now Technical Director of Trentham Expertise Limited, a company specialising in computer consultancy... which is just a posh way of saying, "problem fixing"!
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It's a lovely picture. (As are the rest - I particularly like the lilies in the vase).
***Sonia's random ponderings***
I know I'm not an expert in these things (...yet - it's on the list ;-) ) but isn't the challenge of photography to take the right picture (with all the issues around errant rooves and inconsiderate lighting) rather than to use technology to make the picture work? I'm curious what you think - maybe photography has actually become two different disciplines?
One where the expertise, skill and challenge is in taking the photo and competently enhancing it with technology to make it better; and the other where you have to take the right photo in the right place at the right time.
I suppose it depends what your motivation for doing it is - to have great pictures, or to enjoy taking them. Hmmmm.....
***sonia's ponderings stop...***
Glad you enjoy my humble offerings, Sonj.
WRT your random ponderings, I've been taking instruction from an ex-professional photographer and it seems that 'original' photographs have always been a rarity. Even in the days of film, the photographer would retouch and adjust the images to improve on what was originally produced. Now, with digital techniques, it just means that the techniques have become more accessible.
The problem seems to be that the eye/brain does so much converting that what you see is rarely what is there and so a photo needs a bit of help to recover what was intended.
As to the purity of it all, I'm not really sure. If I see a picture and photograph it but then it turns out not to be at all what I saw because of the lighting, colour balance, etc. then surely it's valid to return the original to what was intended by digital techniques.
As far as I am concerned, I want to take the original picture to be the best that is possible so that there is less enhancing to be done.
To my mind, photography's not about capturing an image of what is there, it's about creating a picture that you want to look at. It's more akin to painting a picture, for those skill to paint.
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