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This could be a contentious posting. I'm interested to know if others feel some of the craft of photography is being lost. In many ways photography is getting a lot easier with digital. When I started about 40 years ago (ok this is where I start sounding old!) you had to get it right in the camera, you had to know what the lighting was going to do, how the different films would react to it etc. Moving to med format with a Polaroid back was a huge step as I could now see what was happening in a couple of mins. Now with digital a quick glance at the screen allows us to see immediately if things are okay and adjust accordingly.
Please don't get me wrong I'm all for digital with all the extra creativity and ease it gives me. In many ways it allows me to be concentrating on the image rather than some of the technical aspects, however I recognise that it can (and does) make me lazy. I regularly use Lightroom and photoshop to replace the old darkroom techniques, and push my imaging in ways that would never have been possible pre digital. At the end of the day it's the final image that matters not how it was produced.
However I am often saddened at some of the things I read in some of the forums on various sites. For example when someone asks how an effect was or could be produced and gets multiple posts outlining various photoshop procedures when to me it's obviously been/could be produced easily in camera! It even spills over into other areas like a model profile I recently saw saying she had several small tattoos that would be "easily photoshopped out"! It sometimes feels that some photographers rely completely on editing programs as part of their basic image production rather than to enhance and extend what is already an acceptable image.
Anyway I will continue to enjoy using all my digital processing to try and realise my photographic ideas. however I will always endeavour to start with the best image from the camera I can.
Please don't get me wrong I'm all for digital with all the extra creativity and ease it gives me. In many ways it allows me to be concentrating on the image rather than some of the technical aspects, however I recognise that it can (and does) make me lazy. I regularly use Lightroom and photoshop to replace the old darkroom techniques, and push my imaging in ways that would never have been possible pre digital. At the end of the day it's the final image that matters not how it was produced.
However I am often saddened at some of the things I read in some of the forums on various sites. For example when someone asks how an effect was or could be produced and gets multiple posts outlining various photoshop procedures when to me it's obviously been/could be produced easily in camera! It even spills over into other areas like a model profile I recently saw saying she had several small tattoos that would be "easily photoshopped out"! It sometimes feels that some photographers rely completely on editing programs as part of their basic image production rather than to enhance and extend what is already an acceptable image.
Anyway I will continue to enjoy using all my digital processing to try and realise my photographic ideas. however I will always endeavour to start with the best image from the camera I can.