well, never thought that picture would cause as much discussion.
here's my take on it, what do people think of Ansell Adams' photos?
he was
darkroom manipulator
the way I look at the issue, especially with my winning image is that even though the picture is exposed correctly it looked
bland and washed out , this was nothing to do with my technique but the type of day in question, yes I could have waited for a day that would bring the colours out but I wouldn't of had the storm would I, so you take your chance and end up with the picture that you planned for. I knew I would have to do something to make it "special".
I usually never photoshop my pictures and here we come to another little thing, I use raw so have to use a raw converter, with raw the camera will pass up it's sharprning and saturation alogorithms to give the photographer manual control over these.
So with a raw image all I usually do when converting is sharpen and saturate a little, just as the camera would do if I used jpeg.;
do people think that would be too much?
I look upon photoshop and the Ilk as my digital darkroom just as Ansell looked at a scene with how he would manipulate it in his darkroom....
But I will always say what I have done so people know, then they make their choice
