I have been amused at some of the recent comments regarding GeeBee's #38 as
they relate to "removing" things from the scene, such as Moose's confession of
eliminating cars from a car park (that's "parking lot" in more common Murkin
terminology) and a couple of other confesions and opinions. But, though I'm
amused, I'm not laughing too loud.
As recently as two or three years ago, I posted on this very list that I
disapproved of and considered it cheating to make any changes to a photograph
through digital chicanery that couldn't be made in the darkroom, i.e.,
cropping, burning in, dodging, etc. But I was worn down over time and
thoroughly corrupted by the influence of this "bad crowd" that I had fallen in
with. My first sin was removing a couple of road signs from my Landscape TOPE.
Afterwards, I felt ashamed and thereafter digitally diddled hardly at all with
subsequent entries.
That is, until TOPE 20, when I could no longer suppress the irrepressible urges
and went, much to my shame and regret, not just right up to the line, one toe
on it, but all the way over it, nearly until it was out of sight.
So, how much is too much? Here's a link to the before and after. I'd be
interested in hearing whether I "done good" or I "oughta be shot" for what I
did. You can easily jump back and forth between the before and after using the
"slide show" arrow.
http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/html/view.cgi-photos.html-.html
Walt, a sinner still sinning, and even more happily
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
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