Dryart38 Loc: Carlsbad, NM

You'd be surprised how many pro photogs don't do their own Photoshop - it has a pretty steep learning curve, and a lot of pros are simply too busy to take the time to learn it! Why learn Photoshop in a lengthy course when you can be somewhere else, making big bucks - it's simple economics! Also, with what they make, they can afford to hire someone who can make a print to their personal liking, and eye, a lot easier!

frederdane Loc: Orlando, FL

Or...Why not consider the absence of another sense that make sense in photography - sight - loss of = blindness. "Look" no further:
http://blog.blindphotograpers.org. You'll see what I mean.

And, yes - I, too, hope to see where you go with your project and look forward to any photographic vision you may create as a result of it.

ole sarg Loc: south florida

Of course they did. Does anyone think the great photographers of Life processed their own film? They had deadlines to meet. You did a shoot on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944 and then at days end hopped on a plane to London to process the film make prints and then back they went to NYC? No the film flew around you stayed and got shot at!

coco1964 Loc: Winsted Mn

That's one thing but Anne is no war photographer, she's basically a fashion/celebrity photographer. I have to agree with the person who said---why take the time to learn something when you can pay someone else to do it for you. If they do it or not most of us will never know BUT at when I'm done with a photo good or bad at least I know I'm the one who made the effort. I think it has something to do with self worth and esteem for ones own work......

pigpen

Of all the things that have changed when we moved from film to digital, I believe one thing has remained constant. What we do AFTER the shot is a large part of the finished product, whether it be darkroom work or computer work. I will use Ansel Adams as an example because he has been mentioned many times in this thread. He has said he had as much control, if not more, of the final result in the darkroom as he did in the field. At least he did his own darkroom work.

Dryart38 Loc: Carlsbad, NM

PhotoArtsLa! Have you seen Smith's book, "Minamata", about the mercury poisoning of a Japanese fishing village by a company dumping mercury waste in a bay? I'm a big fan of W. Eugene Smith, and some of the best picture stories in LIFE magazine were by him - Country Doctor, and the Dr. Albert Swietzer, in Africa, pictures. You're right about "Walk To Paradise Garden", also. He also, did some darn good war photographs until he stepped on a land mine in Indo-China, which ended his war career. With all that he went
through, it was ironic that he died from a brain hemorrage, slipping in a food store in Phoenix, AZ.
Hey, I love your avatar - especially with 2 great lookers, one on each arm! I used to shoot modeling composites, myself! TTYL! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Bozsik Loc: Orangevale, California

Try and Google photography and the zone system. You won't find Kodak. Page after page will come up with Ansel Adams work. He is known for it. Leaky didn't find the missing link in the anthropological line of evolution first - it was Ray Dart, but Leaky was the one who got the most publication for his finding. And it wasn't even him who found it either, it was his wife. Charles Darwin didn't come up with the evolution theory first either, it was his teacher/mentor Wallace, but Darwin published his incomplete book to beat Wallace to the punch. It doesn't matter, in either case, Ansel Adams penned it the zone system, and most photographers accept Adams for it.