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Subject: [OM] Moosa Culpa II Poppies
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:19:57 -0700
On 6/21/2012 2:09 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012, at 04:46 PM, Moose wrote:
>> On 6/18/2012 7:12 AM, Frank Wijsmuller wrote:
>>> The sharpness is quite in contrast with this picture I 'painted' yesterday:
>>>
>>> <
>>> https://plus.google.com/photos/103726771172069534440/albums/5755378292648844625?authkey=CNmAnvDDsJZX
>> I love the idea, subject, composition, focus, bokeh ... The actual image,
>> as posted, suffers from all sorts of ills, odd
>> colors, mysterious borders, lost detail, etc., mostly related to initial
>> exposure and/or post exposure processing of the
>> highlights, red channel in particular.
>>
>> If the red channel is completely recoverable in Raw conversion, there is
>> a wonderful image waiting to be revealed.
> I see what you are getting at, and in part agree, but unless I had Frank
> as a student in a class in which I had trained him to do one thing and
> he had done another, I would never say his work "suffers from all sorts
> of ills."  Not to be personal, but it strikes me as a little
> inconsistent that you object to Ken's royal "we" but then share your
> views as though they are objective truths rather than matters of taste.
> I have no notion whatsoever that Frank's photo is not exactly what he
> meant to do.  Do you?  If not, don't you need to know that before
> assuming that he must really want it to look like your Platonic idea of
> it?

You're tough, caught me out again. If you look back at my posts giving opinions 
on images, you will see that they are 
peppered with, "... in my opinion ...", "... to my taste ..." and similar 
phrases.

I don't know how emotionally you may get engaged with images. Sometimes I get 
perhaps overly engaged. With this one, I 
was so pulled between what I felt was almost a really first rate image and what 
felt to me like avoidable flaws that I 
had a hard time replying at all, or knowing what to say.

I wanted to say how great I found it but for some technical shortcomings that, 
to me, keep it from its potential.

In that process, I forgot to qualify my opinions. You, Frank and whomever else 
I may have upset have my apologies.

I'll try to do better.

Excuses Moose

-- 
What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?


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