civilized ku # 494 ~ I'm bleeding all over the place
Monday, May 10, 2010 at 04:01PM 
Between storms # 2 ~ In the Adirondack PARK - Wilmington, NY • click to embiggenIn yesterday's entry, both stephen and Sven W took out their sharpest knives and sliced my flesh clear through the underlying layer of flesh to the bone - an activity otherwise known as cutting to the quick.
stephen commented that I should "...c'mon, fess up - you sparked up the pedestrian crossing sign a bit, didn't you?" and Sven W thought that "The toning in this image is odd - bordering on HDR?"
You wound me. O ye of little faith, whyfore didst thou doubt my devotion to truth?
In this case, the truth is that both pictures - civilized ku # 493 and # 494 - are straight conversions from their respective RAW camera files with only a small WB tweak and my usual corner vignette applied.
The other truth at work here is the simple fact that light in the scene was stunningly weird and, is most often the case, the rain / water saturated landscape created a deep color saturated look to the scene as well. Then, of course, there is that dark dramatic sky as a backdrop to the whole thing. Taken all together, these qualities just stopped me dead in my tracks and screamed, "take my picture."
One might even say that, on my part, it was simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.
2 things regarding my pictures that you can take to the bank are: 1. I don't do HDR, and, 2. when I use the PS H&S slider, it is ALWAYS to de-saturate, NEVER to saturate, aka - "spark up" - color.
So, there you have it. Now that I have done my version of rebuking the wind and the seas, I feel a great calm.
Reader Comments (2)
Well, phew! Faith restored.
Re: "You wound me. O ye of little faith, whyfore didst thou doubt my devotion to truth?
In this case, the truth is that both pictures - civilized ku # 493 and # 494 - are straight conversions from their respective RAW camera files with only a small WB tweak and my usual corner vignette applied. "
That's a load of nonsense. "Truth?" Your blatant and repetitive manipulation (why not just go ahead and be truthful and use and accept the limitations of a Holga/Diana, rather than use post-processing to control and emulate their effects?) are as repetitive as the super-saturation/full BW scale workers you denigrate.
Look at the pictures that made Len Jenshel famous back in the 70's (www.cookjenshel.com) for light that said: "take my picture."