18 Feb 13. While spending some study time on Sunday reading the blogs of other photographers, I came across the following: "Photoshop? No thanks said Nikon Tragically, in my view, Nikon saw itself as a hardware supplier and did not see any reason to extend the Nikon brand into software or services. In 1988, at the MacWorld show, the Nikon team was approached by two brothers who offered them the rights to market an imaging software application. The brothers were Thomas and John Knoll. The application was called Photoshop. Whilst there was a great deal of enthusiasm for the product from the Nikon European and US marketing teams to market the software under the Nikon brand, the Japanese HQ decided Nikon was not a software company and they could not see a market for it so turned down the opportunity. The rest as they say is history. (Just for the record, Kodak as well as several other photographic giants, turned Photoshop down too.) [Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute Photoshop in September 1988. Photoshop 1.0 for Macintosh was released in 1990.]" Some of you may remember a similar situation with a camera that produced instant photos, offered initially to Kodak who said there was no market for it, which was subsequently marketed by its developer, Dr Land, hence the name Polaroid Land Camera. Now the tie in to all this for today's image is that I was playing around with varying the saturation of a color image to give a sense of the atmospheric conditions (cold) at the time of capture. I had tried doing it several ways but ultimately decided on a set of individual layers to control micro detail, toning, and masking, to achieve the final composite. Nikon D300s; 18 - 200; Aperture Priority; ISO 200; 1/400 sec @ f / 8.

18 Feb 13. While spending some study time on Sunday reading the blogs of other photographers, I came across the following: "Photoshop? No thanks said Nikon Tragically, in my view, Nikon saw itself as a hardware supplier and did not see any reason to extend the Nikon brand into software or services. In 1988, at the MacWorld show, the Nikon team was approached by two brothers who offered them the rights to market an imaging software application. The brothers were Thomas and John Knoll. The application was called Photoshop. Whilst there was a great deal of enthusiasm for the product from the Nikon European and US marketing teams to market the software under the Nikon brand, the Japanese HQ decided Nikon was not a software company and they could not see a market for it so turned down the opportunity. The rest as they say is history. (Just for the record, Kodak as well as several other photographic giants, turned Photoshop down too.) [Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute Photoshop in September 1988. Photoshop 1.0 for Macintosh was released in 1990.]" Some of you may remember a similar situation with a camera that produced instant photos, offered initially to Kodak who said there was no market for it, which was subsequently marketed by its developer, Dr Land, hence the name Polaroid Land Camera. Now the tie in to all this for today's image is that I was playing around with varying the saturation of a color image to give a sense of the atmospheric conditions (cold) at the time of capture. I had tried doing it several ways but ultimately decided on a set of individual layers to control micro detail, toning, and masking, to achieve the final composite. Nikon D300s; 18 - 200; Aperture Priority; ISO 200; 1/400 sec @ f / 8.