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Showing posts with label Thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thoughts. Show all posts
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Thursday, 19 March 2009
Process of processing
Post processing in digital photography can be a tricky thing. How far can one go in processing the picture, so it's still can be called a genuine photograph. The border where the digital photography ends and other kinds of digital graphic arts begins, seems to be rather blurry and not definite at all. Without passing a judgment, it is still important to look for an answer to that question and set guidelines for one self.
We knew, we will get into that problem sooner or later and we will have to make a choice.And so, we have chosen our way. We have formulated our own definition of digital photography and of how far we can go in post processing of our work.
Our way is the way of tradition. Even though we do use the digital camera instead of film , and we do post process our work on the computers rather then in a darkrooms, we have chosen to stick to traditional way of treating and developing photos. To sum it up, every work we publish on this blog is manipulated only as much and using same techniques, as we could do with the image captured on film and developed in a darkroom.
Different use of aperture, shutter speeds, camera motion, color filters, gradient filters, cross processing and spilt toning, were present in traditional photography for years, and so we have an option of using it in our digital workflow as well.
As a consequence anything that exceeds the techniques of traditional photography in any way is not in our interest at the moment and to avoid temptation, we decided not to process our pictures in Photoshop or similar editors at all.
To take pictures we use Nikons D60, D90, D300 with lenses 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6, 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6, 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 and 50mm f/1.8
To process the pictures we use Adobe Lightroom 2 and iPhoto'08 and iPhoto'09.
So that's a little insight into our processing process.
Best Regards,
j
We knew, we will get into that problem sooner or later and we will have to make a choice.And so, we have chosen our way. We have formulated our own definition of digital photography and of how far we can go in post processing of our work.
Our way is the way of tradition. Even though we do use the digital camera instead of film , and we do post process our work on the computers rather then in a darkrooms, we have chosen to stick to traditional way of treating and developing photos. To sum it up, every work we publish on this blog is manipulated only as much and using same techniques, as we could do with the image captured on film and developed in a darkroom.
Different use of aperture, shutter speeds, camera motion, color filters, gradient filters, cross processing and spilt toning, were present in traditional photography for years, and so we have an option of using it in our digital workflow as well.
As a consequence anything that exceeds the techniques of traditional photography in any way is not in our interest at the moment and to avoid temptation, we decided not to process our pictures in Photoshop or similar editors at all.
To take pictures we use Nikons D60, D90, D300 with lenses 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6, 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6, 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 and 50mm f/1.8
To process the pictures we use Adobe Lightroom 2 and iPhoto'08 and iPhoto'09.
So that's a little insight into our processing process.
Best Regards,
j
Friday, 27 February 2009
The Foreword
We spend endless hours in buses ,trains , planes , waiting rooms. Our reality is composed of constantly changing places and faces. While waiting for the evening performance to come, we roam the streets of yet another city, eating in yet another restaurant or lying in bed in yet another hotel room. After some time, being subjected to all this landscapes, all this information, creates a desire to capture it. Is this desire an attempt to stop this quickly passing time, preserve memories, keep track of people and things passing by in this ever changing landscape ? Or is it that by seeing the differences between this place and the one we will visit tomorrow, we slowly become more curios of the surroundings ?
One way or the other I'm lugging my camera around, everyday and everywhere. Taking pictures of this and that, some of them better then others. I end up with thousands of them. But it seems so accidental, so unfocused, sometimes chaotic.
Perhaps if we look at this same world but through a specific task, subject, with a specific fame of mind, perhaps it will organize and focus this act of snapping pictures.
Perhaps we can challenge each other, inspire to look at the subjects differently, push the creativity in order to frame all those frames a little.
j
One way or the other I'm lugging my camera around, everyday and everywhere. Taking pictures of this and that, some of them better then others. I end up with thousands of them. But it seems so accidental, so unfocused, sometimes chaotic.
Perhaps if we look at this same world but through a specific task, subject, with a specific fame of mind, perhaps it will organize and focus this act of snapping pictures.
Perhaps we can challenge each other, inspire to look at the subjects differently, push the creativity in order to frame all those frames a little.
j
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