Thank you Bruce, Jano, TV and Rod for you obersavations, comments and critque. I appreciate your feedback and the opportunity for a dialog.
Bruce, doing grain in color and making in intregral was my aim. Thanks that you noticed without prompting.
Jano, Yes you are probably right about the oversharpening. I have also prepared this image for printing and I have learnt that images needed for printing need a little more sharpening than usual.
TV and Rod, I can't argue with you, you are probably the best critiques in our group without a doubt, and most of the times you are objective in your analysis. You would out convince my reasons for "spoiling" a perfectly good photo with a sig. However this is a publicly viewable forum and not all who visit here are as educated and qualified as you two to understand that photos are inherently copyrighted by the artist. You have to poke fingers in their eyes to make sure that they see it written within the photo, and don't end up with a "this one's free" assumption. Consider this to be an education process for them. I want to be "better safe than sorry". I am at a point in my photography where it can cost me dearly if I let go of a photo without a sig. The other alternative is not to post in publicly viewable forums. But I will feel bad if any of us stops posting just because we don't agree in view of our forum mates. We are here to share, learn, teach and educate. I have learnt a lot here in last several years and still do. I see a lot of new names in here and I don't want them to get a feeling that "sig is only good for the ego and serves nothing except spoil the look of the photo", there is more to it. It also serves as a warning to a careless clicker with legal consequences. Most of the time we strip off the exif as well as other meta data so proving its yours becomes a liability too. The sig adds an in your face notice. I try to keep my sigs simple and out of the visual boundaries of the photo so that it does not break my comps. So I would humbly request you two to understand that from time to time you will see sigs in my photo and I will gladly email any unsigged versions to you for your visual entertainment. Thank you for sharing your views without hesitation. And hope to keep it that way. :-)
Cheers,
-Cat
Rod
31-Jul-2007 07:25
Sigs are a bit strange on a picy but great for the ego:-)
This is a great squared image with incredible grain and both contrasty and subtle colors. I love it and then some intrusive blotch intrudes. I think it's the text thing in the upper left, but I'll try to ignore it. Sorry but in a GOOD image, the debate about sigs comes up - I don't understand why you would want to do it. In a bad image it's easy to ignore the whole thing. -tv
