They promote shooting RAW so they can use the computer to manipulate the image. It's as if actually making a photograph is not enough--it has to be Photoshopped into existence or it's somehow unhip.
Does this concern anyone other than me or am I just an anachronistic old fart with a bad attitude?
They promote shooting RAW so they can use the computer to manipulate the image. It's as if actually making a photograph is not enough--it has to be Photoshopped into existence or it's somehow unhip.
I work as a photo editor at a magazine and also work shifts at a daily paper.
There was a day when photographers mastered their craft and rose to be professionals.
Very few people are mastering digital. Most just save it in Photoshop.
-Rob
This may not be the proper place to post this and it is kind of a rant so....
[Everyone in unison] Hello Lee!
Rant away baby, rant away.
I need to get a digi-gizmo as well for my secondary and tertiary job and I need to ask the resident digital guy at work (I work with computers) what to look for. I have no clue besides "can my old Nikon ai's work with it".
For the price of getting one, I can get a: Shen-Hao 4x5 or decent used 8x10 or Hassy SWC (bargain grade) or a fotoman pano. And these cameras will probably hold their value a lot longer.
I am an old fart - - -.
There's also an abysmal lack of basic equipment knowledge--everything is automatic from exposure to focus to steadying the camera. Skill is unnecessary because we have software to fix all that! God forbid any of the auto modes stops working because no one understands manual processes anymore. When I recently tried to assist someone having a problem on one of their cameras (even digital cameras have some functions and features in common with film cameras I have discovered), I quickly realized this person with the $3000 camera and bagful of high tech glass had no idea what I was talking about. I think it means people have too much money these days--except me, of course.
Today I was sitting in Union Square in San Francisco and a fellow was giving an outdoor class to a group of youngsters armed with digital cameras. He said: "All the great photographers would go out and shoot 400 or 500 images and then come back and be happy with 3 or 4 of them." I almost had to say something but held myself. With that bit of questionable wisdom he unleased his charges out into the city snapping away at everything in sight, not seeing, not engaging the subject, until their collective memory cards were exhausted.
I give you the future.
And thank God for APUG!
George
Lee,
I don't worry too much about the points you raise. The real difficulties, the real work starts once you've mastered the technical craft. A proportion, however small, of the adepts of digital photography will get to that transition, the same can be said of users of traditional silver halide based photography.
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