[Aka]

NOS2Go4Me,Aug 24 2006, 07:43 PM Wrote:Nice!

I'm still trying to figure out if the D50 will shoot in B/W mode at all. I really abhor using software for ANYTHING with my pictures, unless it's for a very specific purpose (logos, etc).

I don't touch up my photos at all... like Aka says, I consider it "cheating".
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As far as I can tell, my camera offers no black and white mode. I change it later in software. May be cheating that way, but I can't find the option in my camera either.

It depends on how you concider touching up a photo. All of my photos need touching up, all of them, that's a side effect of shooting in RAW. The camera just takes the RAW data from the sensor. Yes I set the ISO/aperture/shutter/etc... but each and every picture still needs some touching up, mostly contrast and sharpness. Beyond that I try and stay to what one could do if they were processing film. Anymore than that is when it becomes cheating in my mind. So I try not to use airbrushing, photoshop filters etc... anything you probably couldn't do in a darkroom, I try and stay away from. That isn't to say I don't go crazy from time to time.

A shot through the fence at Kipling station. I used a noise reduction filter (even though there was no noise) and it gave it a soft look, similar to Jay's pictures.


This picture I don't even remember what I did, but there was a lot of photoshopping done. All the blue used to be black, the yellow used to be that school bus colour, and the white is a fence.


This one is from around the airport (where you're not supposed to be ;) ), again obviously heavily photoshopped. Unless you believe that I was on Mars or something.


Anyway my point is, I cheat too. It's fun to mess around in photoshop. But I try not to go too far, these are all examples of me going too far, I still think they're cool, and it doesn't matter what you think, but I still went too far. It's often with pictures that didn't turn out the way I wanted that I start trying to photoshop them into 'good' pictures. But that's never going to work, if it's not a good picture to start photoshop isn't going to save you. And that's something I try and remember when I'm shooting and when I'm post-processing/touching up/editing.