Too Much Photoshop? :)

It's 4x5 Kodachrome transparency. Nothing like it. Great film. I don't think there's that much PS going on. You can quite clearly see the grain of the film.

Just being silly about the PS, 'cause if someone saw this without EXIF, they might scream "Photoshop!"

It needs Photoshop in my opinion.

If they only had HDR in those days, think of how much shadow detail we could see.

;-)

Tom M

Thanks for the link to the site, Les. One can spend days looking through so many interesting pictures.

'cause if someone saw this without EXIF, they might scream "Photoshop!"

I'ld scream "under exposed" which is the same thing that can be done with my own DSLR except my shadows would have useable detail and not be plunged into black silhouette shooting Raw.

But that's still a nice image but I've seen quite a few that will blow your mind even more on that site which I'm a big fan. A lot of the early 1940's Kodachromes I've seen have a surreal quality that makes that era look even more enchanting over the B&W's that usually are associated with it.

The sun and the area around it are rendered so nicely, in a way that says "film." That's perhaps the only aspect of film that I miss.

If they only had HDR in those days, think of how much shadow detail we could see.

for me, in those day i use something call bracketing and it work like a charm.. just was a serious pain to use 3 neg for 1 11x14 print in the darkroom ; )

I think anyone that know photography will get this as a one shot deal on film / digital.. i personnaly dont feel Photoshop on that kind of image, but i can understand that in this modern world, kids (well, grown up too) are use to make images and fix it later in Ps, so for them, that image could be a nice well done cut and paste job.

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Side note #1, i was giving a workshop on Lightroom last week, and i couldtn believe that the #1 reason to shoot raw for many of them (they where around 120 people) is ... " because i can fix my image later in my raw development" ... how about getting the shot in camera first and dont fix anything other than a normal raw process?

Side note #2.. i bought a fuji x100 this weekend (sold my last Canon 5D that i ditn use for the past year or so) WOW WOW WOW.. what a serious piece of engineering! even @3200ISO the grain is so fine that it is almost invisible... would have love to see what this camera can do with the image you linked.

I missed the date on that photo I thought it was a modern photograph, like Patrick I immediately thought why didn't he bracket, my apologies.