Processing our images keeping in view of feelings portrayed - My new article is here at -
http://www.naturelyrics.com/articles/process_feelings/process_feel.html
Hope you may find this useful and let me know your views.
Thank you !
Ganesh H Shankar (http://www.naturelyrics.com)
6 comments:
This is a beautiful writeup Ganesh. I would like to term as "Lessons from Life, Lessons for Life". The way you have expressed what is expected of in MAKING an image taking PP and Mood as the main these is really fantastic. After reading this, I have started to think on the lines of FEELING the mood of the image rather than blindly executing the PP steps. Will definitely think of the lines of "Blur" and Not "Sharpness". This is awesome lessons from you!! Truly overwhelmed by your temperament!
My Question is, will be novice photographer be accepted in the "community" when he tries to experiment with the emotions? You know what I am saying... not always a 'different' approach is accepted. I know we make images for ourselves, but not for others, but still that element of doubt in my mind. What are your thoughts and advice for me?
Pramod, you said it. Who has to accept ? Novice or Pro - junk is junk, good image is a good image. People may ignore couple of images (who cares?) but when we start bring in uniqueness, our own vision consistently it will get noticed. Of course that will be the by-product not the goal by itself.
Failed attempts are better than blind copy.
Just my views...
- Ganesh H Shankar
(http://www.naturelyrics.com)
Nice article Ganesh!!! Lot of times, we do the mistake of processing it in a hurry without spending too much time on a single image ('coz you've lot of images to process!). I think that's a wrong excuse not to do justice to an image. Keeping the same mood as is when you're processing is really important!
Well I guess we shouldn't spend 'too much time' on any image. That's my personal opinion though. As Ganesh always says, once we trip the shutter, the image is already made. Lesser the PP, the iamge is 'better made' in the field. I guess, if the PP is minimal, that says it all. What's your thoughts on this Ganesh?
Pramod, lesser the time taken better it is, but we need to do justice. Without proper procesing image is incomplete. Unlike slide days there is not "original" to compare with for example to make a print for example. It is all in our mind.
Nice article, Ganesh. Got here thru Naturescapes. Back in the days of slides, only those who dabbled in darkrooms cared about post-processing by dodging and burning their prints. Now, with digital we all get that opportunity using Photoshop. You have shown how one should think through the process carefully rather than go through the process mechanically applying Unsharp mask and auto levels.
Do visit my photoblog. I would appreciate your comments.
Rajan.
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