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Earthstepper E
Earthstepper Sep 5, 2003 20:29:23
Replying to treaclechops

Earthstepper cut his teeth in black and white with stinky chemicals under the stairs. Nothing beats burning and dodging with hands and card circles and then seeing the print emerge in the tray under the red safety light. But that was then. Now I use digital and film. Most of the stuff that I have sent to you is from film, commercially processed, scanned, cropped and slightly enhanced with photoshop. Digital is great for taking loads of shots and then deleting most - great for action shots. It makes you lazy with composition though. So for stones and landscape, it's careful composition, natural lighting and not gimmicky light faked from photoshop. If I was a real pedant I'd still be using a tripod, but I don't.

M morfe lux
morfe lux Sep 5, 2003 20:46:51
Replying to Earthstepper

Heloo Earthstepper :-) I dodge and burn with a pressure tablet and a stylus via Photoshop! It's still dodging and burning, but you can do it more accurately. Technology eh? It takes away all the luck and wobblyness! I wish I could paint sometimes.

T treaclechops
treaclechops Sep 5, 2003 20:50:04
Replying to Earthstepper

Cool! All sounds very familiar!

I agree with digital making for lazy composition; I was shooting some pics of the lovely Karen at Uffington Castle, and suddenly went mad in a kind of David Hockney montage way. Which was bloody pointless, as I dumped all the crappily compositioned ones as soon as we downloaded them at home!

I am increasingly setting myself the target of doing *all* my composition in the viewfinder, then printing the full neg, with a bleed. It makes me feel very smug. :o)

treaclechops xx