Just thought I'd point out that both of these comments came in yesterday when I asked for topic suggestions—not one right next to the other, but close. I've left Jozef's capitalizations alone:
James Sinks (partial comment): "Probably a polarizing answer, but more pool and snooker, please. I have zero personal interest in either, but I enjoy your enthusiasm about them a great deal."
Jozef: "Write about Photography, or related...NOTHING OT anymore!"
Make me chuckle. With apologies to Abraham Lincoln, you can please all of the people some of time, and you can please some of the people all of the time, but you can't please all the people all the time*.
Thanks for all the answers yesterday and today. I'm going to use that post's comments as a resource going forward.
Another category I recognized is things that would be nice to read that I can't possibly provide. The exemplar of these is a request I got once asking if I would please compare all of the available photo editing programs. Photoshop, Lightroom, Elements, GIMP, Luminar Neo, ON1, Capture One, ACDSee, Apple Photos, Paintshop Pro, DxO Photolab, Affinity Photo, and so on. That made me shake my head—I've been working with Photoshop for 30 years and I barely understand that. The time I'd need to thoroughly understand every photo editing program exceeds the amount of time we have before the sun expands into a red giant. So, nice idea, but....
Mike
*The actual quote: "You can fool all of the people some of time; you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." Attributed to Abraham Lincoln in The New York Times, August 27, 1887, according to Freakonomics.
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Suggestion: Walk us through how you go from RAW file to finished image, using your software of choice. I would certainly appreciate insight on how you create such beautiful images.
Posted by: David Madison | Sunday, 12 May 2024 at 05:20 PM
I snagged one of those little Hahnemuhle Media Samplers a while back and selected a bunch of papers that appealed to me. Then ordered the corresponding sampler packs from B&H and printed one postcard sized print from each paper. Then trimmed them up with a little border so I could easily judge the paper base.
The end result, I had a beautiful jewel like set of sample prints to gauge future prints against. I even bought one of those $10 corner rounding punch gizmos off Amazon and gave them cool little rounded corners like the old postcards had. Loved the results so much I did it with both a color and B&W image.
Silly little project I know, but invaluable down the road for judging the difference between say German Etching and William Turner.
Great topic for discussion too.
Posted by: Chris Gibbs | Sunday, 12 May 2024 at 09:39 PM
As always, my thoughts and ideas come a day late. What I would like your input on is "What makes a good photograph?" I can recognize what I think is a good photograph (even some of the ones I make) but others don't always agree. I see what are touted as good photographs and don't understand why someone would say that. Are there even any photographs that everyone agrees are good?
Posted by: Jim Palmer | Monday, 13 May 2024 at 10:26 PM
Paper surface texture interacts quite a lot with print size, though&a batch of small prints isn't likely to give me what I need to know (especially since in these modern days I find no real point in printing my photos small, at least not small by darkroom standards; note that this is strictly limited to my opinion about printing my photos, nothing broader!). Size also interacts with tonality issues for me.
Posted by: David Dyer-Bennet | Thursday, 16 May 2024 at 03:42 PM