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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 12/8/2008
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You shoulnd't hear your friends in matters of photography, Saad, but some professional photographers. Much like you don't go to your friends when you are ill but to the doctor. And much like it is not the job of my friends to tell me about mathematics. It is knowledge and skill that counts, and this is the result of work and experience which the "friends" do not have, unless they deal seriously with the subject.
The great photographs of National Geographic for example are printed without any kind of additional editing. If the photo is OK then it is OK. If it is bad, then it gets no chance. The mastering of the camera is necessary! Even if one decides to retouch one still has to master the camera completely first, or else we don't know what we are actually doing by retouching.
A trained eye with the necessary knowledge is immediately able to see how much "bettering" all those "unimaginable" retouching tools bring. Most of the time they are laughable. Sometimes they bring a bit of bettering. Just a bit! This is what they are for, not for turning bad images to good ones. The seemingly "good results" in some isolated discipline are always accompagnied by real catastrophes in all other disciplines and the image is onlygood for being thrown away.
There no algorithme for generating the subtle information of a good image out of a bad image. Thus: Camera and lens first. All other things are cheap excuses of the no hopers.
Cheers!
Nick
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 12/3/2008
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that is very well understood about you dear Nick,
I started at UF with this principle,but I have changed it few month later,it is the fact that all my friends keeps telling me that there are no good shot,unless it was retouched,so I have started to retouch my shots,in the sense of correct lighting,and adds some sharpness,
about the softwares that turns image into goodness,No they are not present,but I think they do enhances ,and improve shots sometimes to a degree unimaginable,
be well,
Saad.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 12/3/2008
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Thanks a lot for the info, Saad! Still I guess that the image was great already in its original form. No software can turn a poor image to a good image.
As for me, I prefer to not use anything else but my camera ans lenses. If I can't do that using only those things then I have to work even harder with them. It is a matter of directness to me, much like trusting the own fingers for playing guitar well or trusting some kind of "sound shaping machinery".
Much like what AC/DC still does quite in centrast to ACDsee, ey? ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 10/21/2008
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thank you John,appreciate your input,my regards,
Saad.
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John Kowalski
{K:177} 10/21/2008
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Beautiful shot Saad! love that look of innocence, lost in his thoughts!
Cheers,
John
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 10/19/2008
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thank you so much Martin,I will consider myself awarded by you nice input,my regards,
Saad.
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Martin .
{K:24957} 10/19/2008
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Saad,
Award winning indeed my friend,
Martin
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 10/16/2008
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dear Nick,this the second image I have retouched using the great discovery that came very late to my knowledge,ACDsee PRO v 2.5,it is worth all the others to me,I do very little editing,and that is only the shadows and highlights,please do have a look at its equalizer if don't use the program before,regards,
Saad.
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 10/16/2008
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thank you my dear Ania,all the best,
Saad.
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 10/16/2008
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thank you Erland,regards,
Saad.
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 10/16/2008
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thank you dear Aziz,regards,
Saad.
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 10/16/2008
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thank you dear Aziz,regards,
Saad.
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 10/16/2008
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thank you so much,appreciate you visit,my regards,
Saad.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/16/2008
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Great B&W portrait in some different angle, Saad! I would prefer a bit more of his profile, but still the details and the plasticity of the shape of his face are very well burned on the image. Talking about details, just look at his hair! Great! The focal separation from the background worked also very well, especiall on such a "total" composition, where the one half is only foreground and the other only background!
And you say, you're running out of images to post?
Cheers!
Nick
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Ania Blazejewska
{K:23981} 10/16/2008
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good portrait Saad, fine b/w tones and comp
my best regards
Ania
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Erland Pillegaard
{K:34147} 10/16/2008
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Sweet picture
erland
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aZiZ aBc
{K:28345} 10/16/2008
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Very beautiful, ..
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vanessa shakesheff
{K:68840} 10/15/2008
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Lovely candid picture of this little boy..nessa
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 10/15/2008
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thank you Hussain,for the visit,kids at his age do not thinks,they just gazes and imitates the others,as you know their actions are a reflexes,my best regards,
Saad.
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Hussain Al-Ahmed
{K:879} 10/15/2008
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Nice Picture Saad.
He is too young to be deeply thinking... I wonder what is he thinking about... :)
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 10/15/2008
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thank you so much dear,my best,
Saad.
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biljana mitrovic
{K:48110} 10/15/2008
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Great one !!!
big hug
biljana
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 10/15/2008
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thank you dear Marian,my deepest regards,
Saad.
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 10/15/2008
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thank you my dear Yazeed,best of me,
Saad.
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Marian Man
{K:80636} 10/15/2008
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excellent shot dear Saad!!!!
lovely composition with wonderful tones!!!!
all the best
Marian
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M jalili
{K:69009} 10/15/2008
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A very good shot my friend . 7/7 ................
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 10/15/2008
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thank you Harry,soon he we will learn the facts of life,my regards,
Saad.
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Wolf Zorrito
{K:78768} 10/15/2008
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Well done, a good pose and a kid wondering what a gate with spears can do.
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