Since a couple of days i've seen a reports on tv about James Nachtwey a
great war photographer.
We can see is work on the field which was very interesting about, how a
war reporter take snapshots, and how he have to make his compositions
instantly.
His pics was so true, very well composed and do not need a recropping.
but we can also see his work on B&W in the lab side by side with the
labman. He asked five time to the guy for masking some parts of the
picture.
his photograph was really true but as a perfectionist. He really want
to emphasize the dramatic feeling gave by the contrast in the scenery(
just a child head in the street with some collapsed buildings on each
side in kosovo).
It seem that for him this work of retouching is an important part of
his work as a photographer.
Loïc
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Loïc Courtais
Paris-France
http://membres.lycos.fr/multispot/
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Le 10 févr. 05, à 10:20, Andrew Fildes a écrit :
>
> When I worked in industrial advertising in the late 1960's,
> photo-retouching was a major expense. No print or reproduction of a
> piece of machinery was displayed or published without extensive
> reworking, ranging from a simple friskit and sprayout of the background
> to a serious paint job. Machine panels were airbrushed and the details
> of machine parts painted in or highlighted if not clearly visible. This
> was unremarkable and even expected, despite the fact that we employed a
> good photographer who used large format gear - 4x5. The larger neg.
> made some retouching of the neg. easier, especially dust spotting. The
> same went for fashin shots, wedding pix and then of course there was
> hand-colouring!
> When I visited a Bill Brandt exhibition recently, I saw that several of
> the prints had been touched up in some way - one early one had a flying
> seagull brushed in using Process White, probably because it was
> indistinct in the straight print and was an important component of the
> image.
> We're painting with light, OK. Get over it. If it's good enough for
> Bill......
> AndrewF
>
>
>
> On 10/02/2005, at 5:21 AM, Alienspecimen wrote:
>> You did good, welcome to the dark side...:)
>> And if your conciousness bothers you, pour it some beer and wait a
>> little until it starts oinking like a pig in a mud puddle. I
>> recommend Geary's or any of the beers from Wachusett brewery.
>> Boris
>> P.S. There is evidence that such heresy as removing ugly telephone
>> posts, street signs, faces etc. from pictures existed as early as
>> 1910.
>> Unfortunately, no one bothered to record the shaman's/witches rituals
>> and accessories, so we could figure out how the magic worked...
>
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