top 10 retouchers on this forum

[robertkacala]

could you tell me who is :
top 10 retoucher on this forum...
top 10 retoucher agencies....
your vote

will be nice to make a voting...senior members pls :-)

[robertkacala]

my favorites
http://www.happyfinish.net/

[w23]

With out a doubt Quantum3Studio

[Salomon]

Conrad Rotondella. too bad he's fled the forum.
http://conraddigital.com/

[ashphotoart]

I'm saying - I'm in top 10 - LOL ha ha ha

Ash

[snook305]

Happy Finish looks pretty good...Would not throw that conrad link in the bunch. Nothing really special on those retouches.
Most top retouchers are certainly not conversing in Forums.
Snook

[robertkacala]

i think your right snook305...
couldn't find Quantum3 studio..what i find was rubbish
(http://picasaweb.google.com/Quantum3Q3)

[Salomon]

Originally Posted by snook305

Would not throw that conrad link in the bunch.
Most top retouchers are certainly not conversing in Forums.
Snook

Oh he's not conversing in the forum. i guess, according to your logic: that makes him a top one right ? lol

[igot2pman]

Originally Posted by robertkacala

i think your right snook305...
couldn't find Quantum3 studio..what i find was rubbish
(http://picasaweb.google.com/Quantum3Q3)

I don't think thats the same person but you can find Quantum3studio's WORKS HERE. In the thread, click on the links to my works.

I reviewed Quantum3studio works in the post below that one. A good editor that has very good control over color.


-Keven

[CYAN JACK]

ANT, has the best skin and hair I've seen in a while.

retouching houses in New York....
Box
Industrial Color

I have a bunch more retouchers bookmarked on my delicious page.
http://delicious.com/smartinphoto/retoucher

[Salomon]

Originally Posted by CYAN JACK

ANT, has the best skin and hair I've seen in a while.

Another good retoucher that's fled the forum.

[amica999]

What about Chris Tarantino? He hasn't been here a while, but if you throw in names he should be on the list :-)

[snook305]

Originally Posted by Salomon

Oh he's not conversing in the forum. i guess, according to your logic: that makes him a top one right ? lol

If you noticed there is period after my sentences, which means they are 2 different statements.. But being from Paris I can understand you may NOT understanding what I have written...:+} That is how wars get started...
What I was saying is that Conrads work , Athough OK, is not that impressive and certainly not in the top 10.
Then the other statement was most top retouchers are not going into forums to ask Beavis and Butthead for retouching advice or how to do the DAve Hill Look...:+]

Comprende?

Snook

[Salomon]

let me in return teach you the basic of Logic. (cause i feel greatful of you teaching me the crucial meaning of a period...).

you made a statement: "Most top retouchers are certainly not conversing in Forums."
In the other way your statment is: "Most of those who dont converse in forums are certainly Top retouchers"
(sounds highly stupid eh?)

And that's where my fella conrad comes in ! he no longer post in the forum (and certainly won't after reading this thread) so according to Logic based on your statement that makes him a Top retoucher !

well, all that is the explanation of a JOKE. Capish?

about Dave Hill, we might agree. i think it is the most discussed crap i've ever seen!

[robertkacala]

http://www.saddingtonbaynes.com/
they are in the book of top 200 ad photographers.

[skydog]

before we go further...pls define a "top retoucher"?

[SymbolPhoto]

Robert, you are very concerned with who is the best. Why is that? Do you feel as though you deserve the title?

[robertkacala]

Skydog....Definition??? of top retoucher(http://www.creativeretouching.com/Retoucher.html)...i can just see the pic and i think i can recognize good work from crap...details are important..fine tuning of picture....so you can print billboard and not to be a shamed.
SymbolPhoto....I'm not retoucher. I'm retouching for fun, just like it,i have not finish any design school.
ps:
I'm very interesting with yours work can you show me?

[skydog]

didn't mean to hit a nerve Robert...just wondering how you defined a top retoucher...thank you for your explanation.

[skydog]

Robert...l like the link...I really like the photos by Jim Fiscus...didn't realized he was working with saddingtonbaynes...he had the look before Dave Hill...is Jim more a photographer or a retoucher? Probably both...

[w23]

Quantum3Studio is my favorite scatterbrained retoucher

[robertkacala]

i'm always asking the God...Google...this is what i find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retouching :-)
Fiscus is photograpaher...and probably someone is just doing the retouch work for him,God knows...

[CaptainHook]

Originally Posted by Salomon

Conrad Rotondella. too bad he's fled the forum.

He started his own place with a forum. (that is currently down..)
Ant and Chris are both members there and post also..

[Salomon]

Originally Posted by CaptainHook

He started his own place with a forum. (that is currently down..)
Ant and Chris are both members there and post also..

yeah i know. but the forum has been down for a couple of months so... nice articles tho.

[ftp-Jeff]

Just look at the long running retouching houses..... If they have been going for that amount of time, they must be doing something right!

BUT.... There a a lot of VERY talented retouchers, that have given it up! Or in the process of giving up. Same can be said of art directors!

Jeff

[Markzebra]

Yeah people might SAY they are going to give it up, but as soon as things pick up… the choice then is, earn 400 quid a day or find a new a completely new career in football management or realise that lifelong dream - banking executive!

[ftp-Jeff]

Oh, I really do know a lot that have given it up, most of them had no choice! 1 more year for me......

[Markzebra]

Secure profession isn't it. As you said that's why its gone quiet with some people even on the top end scrabbling around for work. These periods are the great leveller though. Hopefully at the end of it, we'll have got rid of some of the 9 to 5 hangers on, that have been plaguing the industry. Strangely enough those are the ones with the sharpest elbows

[ftp-Jeff]

This is the 4th recession I have seen in this industry..... I started in 1972!

I just can't stand looking at all the shit that is being passed as retouching now days.

[robertkacala]

any samples of your work ftp-Jeff? pls.