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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 210779" data-attributes="member: 12496">I can envy your being an artist, because I am far from it.&nbsp;&nbsp; I can appreciate your goal to create what you envisioned, but also maybe appreciate my goal of getting something, anyway I can.&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;&nbsp; Sometimes it takes me days to find something in that batch, somewhere, hopefully.&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />It is always said &quot;get it right in the camera&quot;.&nbsp; It would be fine if we did, but of course, we simply cannot.&nbsp; Our tools are too coarse.&nbsp; White Balance is difficult, the camera controls are too coarse for the many variations we get, of daylight, of incandescent, of flashes.&nbsp; Exact exposure is tough too, at least without retries, due to reflective meters.&nbsp; And sometimes we can be surprised that cropping can find two or three pictures in one frame. The important thing to my style is about how to fix it later.&nbsp; Not meaning any creative photoshopping, I don't.&nbsp; I only mean necessary corrections.I am reminded of the Indiana Jones movie where the eastern swordsman was approaching swishing his sword in impressive ways, but Jones simply shoots him from a little distance.&nbsp; It may not exactly be style, but it seemed a good result. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />But should we ever win the great cover shot on the leading magazine (natl geographic, or the old Life, or whatever), it is only the result that counts.&nbsp; No one is going to ask how we planned and executed it, if we crawled through the swamp first, or if we cropped it later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 210779, member: 12496"] I can envy your being an artist, because I am far from it. I can appreciate your goal to create what you envisioned, but also maybe appreciate my goal of getting something, anyway I can. :) Sometimes it takes me days to find something in that batch, somewhere, hopefully. :) It is always said "get it right in the camera". It would be fine if we did, but of course, we simply cannot. Our tools are too coarse. White Balance is difficult, the camera controls are too coarse for the many variations we get, of daylight, of incandescent, of flashes. Exact exposure is tough too, at least without retries, due to reflective meters. And sometimes we can be surprised that cropping can find two or three pictures in one frame. The important thing to my style is about how to fix it later. Not meaning any creative photoshopping, I don't. I only mean necessary corrections. I am reminded of the Indiana Jones movie where the eastern swordsman was approaching swishing his sword in impressive ways, but Jones simply shoots him from a little distance. It may not exactly be style, but it seemed a good result. :) But should we ever win the great cover shot on the leading magazine (natl geographic, or the old Life, or whatever), it is only the result that counts. No one is going to ask how we planned and executed it, if we crawled through the swamp first, or if we cropped it later. [/QUOTE]

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