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pecuniumI've been making up the portfolio. It's not hard work, physically, but there's a mental drain (and doing it has made me aware of some workflow issues I hadn't thought of before I started building a folder of files to print, instead of printing as I went).
I've also been reading some books, and the amazing thing (sadly) is how solidly entrenched Photoshop is. Tricks, tips and advice (which all photo-books have) used to be about things which anyone could do. Filters, bounce cards, ways to read the scene and estimate the light.
Math, to precict values, and ways to under/over expose the film, and then how to take advantage of that in processing.
But all of that was stuff which stood independent of any single product.
Not so much anymore.
But it's nice, I have about 20 pictures, in large sizes, bound in a book. Looking at them that way is wonderful. They are different on paper. The light is reflected, the whites are measured by the paper. The edges are shaped by it. In that regard digital isn't different from film; the image is magnified in effect, when the image is enlarged.
Today, I see "Daemons" all over the place. It's a movie promotion, but I broke down and got one. What I did notice is the oddity of languages one could use.
Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Suomic, Danish, Norse, Swedish.
All Western European. All covering (my mind glossed) the limites of Napoleons campaigns, save the failed excursion to Russia.
I'd post it, but for some reason the code pops up as an invalid video url, which seems a pity, because if it was working, y'all could could go and comment, and the final one might not be the same as the one I got from answering the questionaire (and I have some doubts about it, as they said I was shy).
I've also been reading some books, and the amazing thing (sadly) is how solidly entrenched Photoshop is. Tricks, tips and advice (which all photo-books have) used to be about things which anyone could do. Filters, bounce cards, ways to read the scene and estimate the light.
Math, to precict values, and ways to under/over expose the film, and then how to take advantage of that in processing.
But all of that was stuff which stood independent of any single product.
Not so much anymore.
But it's nice, I have about 20 pictures, in large sizes, bound in a book. Looking at them that way is wonderful. They are different on paper. The light is reflected, the whites are measured by the paper. The edges are shaped by it. In that regard digital isn't different from film; the image is magnified in effect, when the image is enlarged.
Today, I see "Daemons" all over the place. It's a movie promotion, but I broke down and got one. What I did notice is the oddity of languages one could use.
Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Suomic, Danish, Norse, Swedish.
All Western European. All covering (my mind glossed) the limites of Napoleons campaigns, save the failed excursion to Russia.
I'd post it, but for some reason the code pops up as an invalid video url, which seems a pity, because if it was working, y'all could could go and comment, and the final one might not be the same as the one I got from answering the questionaire (and I have some doubts about it, as they said I was shy).
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Date: 2007-04-30 05:19 am (UTC)