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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 504607" data-attributes="member: 13090">I definitely think there are two sides to the &quot;coin&quot; of post processing: technical accuracy and artistic expression. Technical accuracy, to me, primarily rests on accurate color reproduction: whites should be white and blacks should be black for instance. Set your white-point, set your black point and most everything else will fall into place. Or, you can use the White Balance tool, for instance, to find a neutral grey and balance color from that one point. I like using all three points but sometimes that's just not possible.Artistic expression is great but to be totally frank with you, I've seen too many people use that as an excuse for not knowing how to fix something. If the skin tones in your portraits are three shades of blue, for instance, and you tell me that's your artistic expression? Well that's just fine and dandy! But be prepared for my curiosity to be piqued and too explain you artistic vision in deeper terms. Perhaps you're going for a Fauvist look? That's fine... We can discuss that.More to the point, I think the best place from which to start being expressive with one of my images, is from the solid foundation of what is a technically accurate image. But, that's just me and as I've said before, I have no dog in anyone's post-processing race.....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 504607, member: 13090"] I definitely think there are two sides to the "coin" of post processing: technical accuracy and artistic expression. Technical accuracy, to me, primarily rests on accurate color reproduction: whites should be white and blacks should be black for instance. Set your white-point, set your black point and most everything else will fall into place. Or, you can use the White Balance tool, for instance, to find a neutral grey and balance color from that one point. I like using all three points but sometimes that's just not possible. Artistic expression is great but to be totally frank with you, I've seen too many people use that as an excuse for not knowing how to fix something. If the skin tones in your portraits are three shades of blue, for instance, and you tell me that's your artistic expression? Well that's just fine and dandy! But be prepared for my curiosity to be piqued and too explain you artistic vision in deeper terms. Perhaps you're going for a Fauvist look? That's fine... We can discuss that. More to the point, I think the best place from which to start being expressive with one of my images, is from the solid foundation of what is a technically accurate image. But, that's just me and as I've said before, I have no dog in anyone's post-processing race. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"]....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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