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Ken Tanaka
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Based on your earlier reaction to critiques I've no expectation that you'll take mine earnestly, either. But I feel compelled to offer it anyway.
So, Jan, here is my simple suggestion: More camera, less computer.
Your Canon Rebel is capable of producing a much, much better image that you've shown in any of your posts. You are being far too heavy-handed with your Photoshop work and you're poorly skilled at it. (With all due respect, based on your over-sharpening tendency and your extreme color imbalances I wonder if a trip to the optometrist might not be in order.)
Just take the damn pictures and share them with us. Only use Photoshop for absolutely essential tasks. I suspect that your eye is far better than your mouse.
So let's see some of your real photography.
So, Jan, here is my simple suggestion: More camera, less computer.
Your Canon Rebel is capable of producing a much, much better image that you've shown in any of your posts. You are being far too heavy-handed with your Photoshop work and you're poorly skilled at it. (With all due respect, based on your over-sharpening tendency and your extreme color imbalances I wonder if a trip to the optometrist might not be in order.)
Just take the damn pictures and share them with us. Only use Photoshop for absolutely essential tasks. I suspect that your eye is far better than your mouse.
So let's see some of your real photography.
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
In simple terms, Jan, we'd love to see your portrait of this man but what the camera is recording. That will show off your selection of subjects and the point of view chosen and the lighting. These already define so much of your photography.
As Ken says, Photoshop is degrading your work. Here the color of the man is so off that I was not able to correct it using either the black of his pupils, the white of his eyes or the white in between the stripes on his shirt! I can see that his hair has a lot of cyan and in the lower half it seems magenta. How you get to this position I have no idea. Unless you are working with a profiled monitor, leave photoshop color corrections alone completely. Set the camera to auto white balance! It's pretty smart! Some wedding pros even shoot in jpg like that!
Also no need to get larger than 600 to 700 pixels wide unless your subject is full of detail like a whole group of people or a cloud of monarch butterflies.
With kindness,
Asher
As Ken says, Photoshop is degrading your work. Here the color of the man is so off that I was not able to correct it using either the black of his pupils, the white of his eyes or the white in between the stripes on his shirt! I can see that his hair has a lot of cyan and in the lower half it seems magenta. How you get to this position I have no idea. Unless you are working with a profiled monitor, leave photoshop color corrections alone completely. Set the camera to auto white balance! It's pretty smart! Some wedding pros even shoot in jpg like that!
Also no need to get larger than 600 to 700 pixels wide unless your subject is full of detail like a whole group of people or a cloud of monarch butterflies.
With kindness,
Asher
Rachel Foster
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The man has a wonderful face and the composition is lovely. I agree -- too much post-processing. Sharp ain't everything. Perhaps my best image EVER is this one....as you can see it's quite blurry.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Hi Rachel,
This too is one of my favorites and I have your print on my desk. Thanks!
I've always liked simple form and inference over detail. I respect technical prowess. Still, fun, beauty, entertainment and intellectual stimulation give more.
To deliver this simply and be technically perfect is rare.
Asher
This too is one of my favorites and I have your print on my desk. Thanks!
I've always liked simple form and inference over detail. I respect technical prowess. Still, fun, beauty, entertainment and intellectual stimulation give more.
To deliver this simply and be technically perfect is rare.
Asher
Rachel Foster
New member
Asher, I"m delighted you keep the print nearby. More to the point: I learned sharp is not be-all and end-all.
Gary Ayala
New member
I like sharp ... I still haven't learned that "sharp is not be-all and end-all." Be that as it may ... I echo Tanaka without reservation.
Gary
PS- Well said Ken.
G
PPS- I do like that image Rachel.
G