idea for forum

staypuffinpc

I am a long-time lurker that finally was able to purchase my first dSLR about a month ago (yay!). I wind down at the end of the day by looking at the photos you all post.
One thing I've noticed a lot lately are people practicing their post-processing techniques. With the recent DSS challenge to emulate another photographer, I had an idea I'd like to propose. Why not have a forum dedicated specifically to demonstrating a particular post-processing technique? It seems that this "finishing school" might be a place I'd find these things, but this forum is a place for discussing all sorts of software techniques. I envision this "in the post" forum would be a place for someone to post a picture and talk through the steps they used to get that particular technique. That way, each new thread is an opportunity to learn a new pp technique.
Forgive me if this already exists somewhere. I'd love to know where it's at. Thanks everyone for your daily posts.

rutt

I think this is a good idea. In the past, some of the best posts have had this form. The moderators collected some of these here. I don't think this list has been updated very recently, even though a lot of people have changed their post techniques and now rely more on LightRoom and use input/output sharpening (I'm sort of a holdout and still stand by the techniques from my old posts.)

I'd like to see a moderated forum, like The Whipping Post, with step-by-step how-to's and before/after full sized images. Replies would have to be:

1. Specific questions about application of the technique, perhaps to new images which also would be posted
2. Technical and/or typographic corrections
3. Alternative techniques also with step-to-step illustration

Done right, such a (sub)forum would produce a new collection of high quality tutorials illustrating current technique. This could be a magnet for people trying to learn and improve post technique.

aj986s

staypuffinpc

spot on

I'd like to see a moderated forum, like The Whipping Post, with step-by-step how-to's and before/after full sized images. Replies would have to be:

1. Specific questions about application of the technique, perhaps to new images which also would be posted
2. Technical and/or typographic corrections
3. Alternative techniques also with step-to-step illustration

Done right, such a (sub)forum would produce a new collection of high quality tutorials illustrating current technique.

this is exactly what I'm talking about. What're the chances of this happening?

rutt

staypuffinpc wrote:

this is exactly what I'm talking about. What're the chances of this happening?

Unlikely, it seems. We'd need a lot more replies to this thread to get it to happen.

pathfinder

rutt wrote:

I think this is a good idea. In the past, some of the best posts have had this form. The moderators collected some of these here. I don't think this list has been updated very recently, even though a lot of people have changed their post techniques and now rely more on LightRoom and use input/output sharpening (I'm sort of a holdout and still stand by the techniques from my old posts.)

I'd like to see a moderated forum, like The Whipping Post, with step-by-step how-to's and before/after full sized images. Replies would have to be:

1. Specific questions about application of the technique, perhaps to new images which also would be posted
2. Technical and/or typographic corrections
3. Alternative techniques also with step-to-step illustration

Done right, such a (sub)forum would produce a new collection of high quality tutorials illustrating current technique. This could be a magnet for people trying to learn and improve post technique.

I like this idea also, but I see no reason threads of this type can't be done in Finishing School now. You have written many like this in the past, and I think they were quite informative.

I always enjoy seeing and learning new ways to accomplish photo editing.

staypuffinpc

pois é

rutt wrote:

Unlikely, it seems. We'd need a lot more replies to this thread to get it to happen.

Yeah, I was hoping this would generate more conversation. Obviously, it's not as big of a deal as I would have hoped. C'est la vie, I suppose. I agree that it's possible to see these things in "finishing school," but having a dedicated place for PP walk-thoughs would, IMO: (a) gather PP tuts in one place and, (b) encourage more sharing of the process rather than just the end product.

pathfinder

Stay tuned, it is in discussion with management

Tiziano

I'll chime in.
I love this idea.
It's also always fun the see before and afters like this. Of course that's my work and I didn't really go over how I made the adjustments.

staypuffinpc

alright

pathfinder wrote:

Stay tuned, it is in discussion with management

woohoo! I'll wait and see what comes of it, in that case. If you do decide to do it, you might petition some regulars to post a recent process to kick things off. There are some folks on here whose photos always stand out, it seems (for example, I would love to know a little more about Ron Coscorrosa's pp techniques, as well as some other folks that I regularly see).

LoriKTM

I'm a PP newbie, so I think this is a great idea!

Qarik

I am interested in this as well

austinstrobist

subscribed!

Y_Knot

I would be interested in this also.

ShepsMom

Count me in!!

divamum

Add me to the list of folks who would enjoy this. Could it be made a child-board, or something, still under the banner of Finishing School?

whiterice

I really like this idea.

jethibod

I'm in too! And I have a lot to learn!

Jwar

count me in also, but hmmmm....

I guess the big question, are they going to be willing to share their PP secrets? Don't some of the pros consider their PP proprietary?

nikos

Jwar wrote:

count me in also, but hmmmm....

I guess the big question, are they going to be willing to share their PP secrets? Don't some of the pros consider their PP proprietary?

Many photographers won't but you learn a great deal more by trying to reverse engineer the processing instead of being shown how to do it from the get-go.

Jwar

nikos wrote:

Many photographers won't but you learn a great deal more by trying to reverse engineer the processing instead of being shown how to do it from the get-go.

i agree with you Nikos. The trail and error helps you learn, but i think the original request was to be shown "how to".

kwcrow

I like this idea also. I love looking at before and after PP pictures and then have the next guy give it a whirl and see if he can improve on it.

MLangton

rutt wrote:

Unlikely, it seems. We'd need a lot more replies to this thread to get it to happen.

<--- Here's one!!!

I'd love something like this. My camera operation ranks as amateur, but my processing abilities barely even register on kindergarten level. <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/eek7.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

Khristen

I think this is a great idea!!!

Jermbubba

Love it!