Comments on: Sparrows Near Museum

By: Chris Klug

Chris Klug — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:05:50 +0000

Understood. I transform each image like I shoot, very unconsciously. I look at it, and I start moving sliders or picking a profile for the image (I work in capture One before I move the images into Lightroom). ‘Trance’ you say. I say ‘unconsciously’ but I know we’re talking about the same thing. We look at the image and respond to it. I chatted (in email) with Markus Hartel about his method, and while I don’t use it exactly hardly ever, I learned a lot about digitally processing images just from having the chat. More in the realm of ‘tricks up my sleeve’ rather than ‘THE method to use.” Beneath all the discussion he issue for me is this: When I shoot in HP5 and scan the images, I like them a lot better than when I shoot digitally and then transform them. And the ‘what’ of the things I like about the scanned neg should be definable, but my thinking today is that it lies in the area of my lack of skill with Photoshop or something. Anyhoo, I like your new layout and theme, and your work, as always, is inspirational. Thanks for posting.

By: Dave Beckerman

Dave Beckerman — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:35:09 +0000

Chris – I will do a recording of keystrokes and screens some day; but it isn’t so straight-forward and every image is treated differently. But there’s no magic secrets here. Transform the image to grayscale in Lightroom and then go into a trance and figure out what it is supposed to be. Imagining what can be done with the image; trying to give it a place in the world that is unique; in short, what needs to be dodged; what needs to be burned; and what else can you do to get a particular feeling across. As I say – different for every image.

By: Chris Klug

Chris Klug — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:19:58 +0000

Don’t know why this photo triggered this question, but you mentioned once you were going to post something about the way you transform an RGB image in greyscale. Have you given any more thought to that?

By: Craig M. Nisnewitz

Craig M. Nisnewitz — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:01:51 +0000

Very good.