Re: good beginner camera

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:06:37 GMT, Tony Cooper
<tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>I feel that the problem with advising the novice that complex
>post-production steps are essential tends to discourage them from
>learning the basic steps (like white balance corrections based on the
>type of illumination) of operating the camera and the basic tenets of
>composition. Sometimes it discourages them from even getting
>interested in more than pointing and shooting.


I'm with David on this one. You seem to feel Curves
is a tool to use in "special situations." and that
white balance is somehow more fundamental.

My digicams are set to auto white-balance, and
I've never once used (or found) a white-balance
control in Photoshop. (I do occasionally tweak
the white-balance tool in my RAW-converter
application.)

To me, the Curves tool is the single most important
(and misunderstood, and under-utilized) tool for
color correction in Photoshop. Not a single image
(either from my film scans or from my digicams)
escapes treatment from this tool. In the majority
of cases, it's the _only_ tool I use for color
correction.


rafe b
www.terrapinphoto.com
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