[artshow_photo] Re: When does a photo stop being a photo?

Dodging and burning is one thing... splicing twenty photos and digitally painting them together is another.

I would think a definite safe area would be that if it can be done in Lightroom it is probably not too excessive.

Eric Clay
fadedbeauty.com

--- In artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com, J Bryan Kramer <codeburner@...> wrote:
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> I hadn't thought about it like that but it's certainly true he was a master
> of darkroom work. And so was Richard Avedon, there is a video out about his
> work and it show one scene where he has a maybe 20x30 print marked up like a
> topographical map with dodge and burn instructions for the darkroom techs.
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> BK
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> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 21:49, Rod Melotte <grinder12000@...> wrote:
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> > "Speaking of Ansel, he dodged and burned to the nth degree. He would have
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> > Photoshop. In fact, in a way, he invented it!"
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