Overprocessed images?, Is it art?, RFF civility, etc.

[Ash]

humanized_form. There will always be tweaking to have a print. There is a high level of post-manipulation to get the best result in the darkroom too. The difference is, in the darkroom it's meant to be subtle, unnoticeable.

 

[humanized_form]

humanized_form. There will always be tweaking to have a print. There is a high level of post-manipulation to get the best result in the darkroom too. The difference is, in the darkroom it's meant to be subtle, unnoticeable.

thanks... i hear this said quite frequently and i just don't think it's universally true.

have you ever shot color slides?

there is _no_ manipulation beyond the e6 processing. you make your choices in camera _before_ you take the picture. you can't take this approach with digital.. yet. unless you are willing to accept jpegs and the artifacts that go along with using them etc.

i just got some slides drum scanned and made into prints. the slide is the reference for the print. any necessary tweaking would be to make the scan look like the slide.

a whole different world than negative film or digital.

kevin

 

[Ash]

That's fair enough, but if you re-read, I specifically said _print_

 

[humanized_form]

yes, i understood your point about prints. as i said above, i know that scans can require tweaking to look like the original slide before you can print.

i think my point is that i already have a finished image. the best (or worst!) possible result has already been achieved in the camera, and any print is simply an effort to try to best match that original image.

cheers,
kevin

 

[dmr]

Most of the members of the average camera club won't know a good from a bad photo ... ...

I don't belong to a camera club. If this is what goes on there, then I'm never going to join one. Sounds way to dangerous. 😀

Notice that they always call it the "Camera Club" and not the "Photography Club" or something like that?