RetouchPRO - Entries for January 2008

"Make" vs. "Create"

Posted 01-14-2008 at 05:09 PM by Doug Nelson

This is not a semantic discussion, so negative brownie points to the first commenter who quotes a dictionary. This is philosophy, so get out your pointy hat.

Can you sense the difference in nuance between "make" and "create"?

I seem to regularly get into discussions about this, and they seem to be accelerating, so I thought I'd poke a pin in it and post this here for open discourse.

IMO, if you are responding to someone else's idea,...

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The Art of Cropping

Posted 01-12-2008 at 09:43 AM by Frank Lopes

First of all a disclaimer:

I'm horrible at cropping. Most of the time, the notion of volumes and spaces, balance or rule of thirds, is beyond me.

I have a hard time visualizing by looking at a photo, how I could improve the image just by appropriately cropping it.

Some people have "it" and some don't. I don't

So what I do is experiment until I arrive at a point that pleases me.
It is an enjoyable learning process that has thought...

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The Nodal Point - part 2

Posted 01-11-2008 at 10:36 PM by Frank Lopes

In part one, I explained that many panorama photos never align regardless how careful you were shooting the sequence.

It happened to me many times and after some research, I found that those pictures were not aligning because I wasn't pivoting the camera on its lens nodal point.

So, if the answer is to pivot the camera on the nodal point, the answer is simple, correct?

Well not quite...

The first problem is that, in reality, there are two nodal...

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Thank you Herbert Keppler

Posted 01-10-2008 at 08:58 AM by Frank Lopes

Unless you are a photography geek, you probably don't recognize the name of Herbert Keppler.

For more than 50 years (since 1950 to be exact...), he thought and inspired tens of thousands of budding photographers.

A writer, editor, publisher, journalist, teacher, photographer and industry guiding light, his columns in Popular Photography and Modern Photography, were famous for his wit, clarity, knowledge and foresight.

After a very short illness, Herbert Keppler...

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Retouching DVD.... threat? : )

Posted 01-10-2008 at 06:58 AM by cricket1961

Due to a lot of flak from my agents and quite a lot of encouragement from members here and retouchers in the industry, I have decided to do a tutorial DVD. Much to my agents dismay, she would love a book instead but I am the king of procrastination and not really liking to write, the two don't mix well with deadlines.

Not that I like to talk either though. I'm kind of a mime retoucher....

So instead of ursuping a existing thread and to consolidate suggestions from people...

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