by Ganesh H Shankar on Thu Apr 21, 2016 11:22 am
Nice emphasis on those invasive parallel patterns there Raj. It was great meeting you and for the very informative talk on tonal management.
In an unrelated note, continuing on the topic of tonal management, in B&W processing at times I think we give too much importance to following the formula - keep very few pixels in pure black, a few few in pure white, spread the remaining rest to ensure everything from (1,1,1) to (254,254,254) get nicely separated. However, I think emotion and intent has to drive this decision and not the routine spread of the tones from zone 0 to zone 10. The idea is not to turn every thing into yet another beautifully tone managed print. Emotional correctness (from creator's point of view) I think is far more important than technical correctness of the final output. If such a rendering needs pixels in zone 0, 5 and 10, so be it. We should not be routinely spreading them in each print.
Your thoughts?
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Ganesh H. Shankar
Wishing you best light,
Fine Art Nature Photography
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