Have you noticed? Technique has disappeared
Oct 16, 2020 16:44:33 #
Oct 16, 2020 16:51:12 #
SteveR wrote:
Years ago, technique of various kinds was a big part of the discussions in this section. Now it seems it's all about equipment, software or problems relating to the two.
Now days technique has been replaced by, “Fix it in post”. Just hit the AI button. Change out the sky. Etc.
Oct 16, 2020 16:56:36 #
Mac wrote:
Now days technique has been replaced by, “Fix it in post”. Just hit the AI button. Change out the sky. Etc.
Yep and nothing beats a poorly captured mediocre composition that has been “fixed” in post! 😂
Oct 16, 2020 16:58:48 #
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Oct 16, 2020 17:04:08 #
DavidPine
Loc: Fredericksburg, TX
SteveR wrote:
Years ago, technique of various kinds was a big part of the discussions in this section. Now it seems it's all about equipment, software or problems relating to the two.
Funny you should mention this. I shoot manual with many different cameras and I am usually pretty happy with the images I capture. But I have mostly relied on Auto Focus. I so seldom use manual focus I felt that I was cheating my skill. So I went out on a windy day with bright sunshine and only used manual focus. I actually found the process fun so I think I'll keep doing it in the future.
Oct 16, 2020 17:07:00 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
The road to hell is paved with plans to recover it in post.
Oct 16, 2020 17:08:26 #
DavidPine wrote:
Funny you should mention this. I shoot manual with many different cameras and I am usually pretty happy with the images I capture. But I have mostly relied on Auto Focus. I so seldom use manual focus I felt that I was cheating my skill. So I went out on a windy day with bright sunshine and only used manual focus. I actually found the process fun so I think I'll keep doing it in the future.
That's how we flew before AF.
Oct 16, 2020 17:35:54 #
DavidPine wrote:
Funny you should mention this. I shoot manual with many different cameras and I am usually pretty happy with the images I capture. But I have mostly relied on Auto Focus. I so seldom use manual focus I felt that I was cheating my skill. So I went out on a windy day with bright sunshine and only used manual focus. I actually found the process fun so I think I'll keep doing it in the future.
Oct 16, 2020 17:40:06 #
SteveR wrote:
Years ago, technique of various kinds was a big part of the discussions in this section. Now it seems it's all about equipment, software or problems relating to the two.
There are probably several reasons. One might be the proliferation of specialty sections. I don't follow too many of those sections but I suspect there is discussion of technique in the Portrait, Landscape, Macro, Close-up, People, etc, sections, no?
Oct 16, 2020 20:05:16 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
SteveR wrote:
Years ago, technique of various kinds was a big part of the discussions in this section. Now it seems it's all about equipment, software or problems relating to the two.
I'm curious, Steve. What, exactly, constitutes 'technique' for you? And what parts of the myriad considerations that constitute technique --for you or for anyone, these days-- do you find lacking?
I mean this quite seriously, counter to the typically dismissive stance I usually take when discussing 'process' of most kinds while discussing what did, could have, or didn't happen in the time --and the choices made-- between 'seeing' the picture and that image's final actuality as print, post, or memory recorded.
Could it be that its simply simpler and easier to describe the gear, or the software used, or the person/place/thing that has been recorded? Or is it instead a matter of the difficulty --and virtual impossibility for some of by not being practiced/schooled/cognitively able to do so-- of being able to describe the totality of the process/experience?
Oct 16, 2020 21:43:43 #
LWW
Loc: Banana Republic of America
larryepage wrote:
Given today's advances in gear, usable results are much more achievable without worrying about technique. For instance, 98% of folks here seem to believe that VR/IS/whatever is the most important thing in photography. With today's VR, who thinks they need to worry about proper technique for holding a camera and releasing the shutter?
How true.
The purpose of post processing is to ‘FIX’ a photo which could/should have been taken properly in the first place.
Oct 16, 2020 22:05:30 #
LWW wrote:
How true.
The purpose of post processing is to ‘FIX’ a photo which could/should have been taken properly in the first place.
The purpose of post processing is to ‘FIX’ a photo which could/should have been taken properly in the first place.
Maybe for some photographers. For me, the purpose of post processing is to further enhance images that were as good as they could have been out of the camera. Ansel Adams developed his zone system to get the best possible negatives, but he still did extensive post processing. The burning and dodging he did was to selectively lighten or darken sections of his photos, which can't be done in the camera. It's the same with digital - you can mask and enhance different parts of the photo, not just lightening and darkening but adjusting color, saturation, sharpening, noise reduction. That's not to say I've never "fixed" an image I had made an error shooting, but it's not the best use of post processing.
Oct 16, 2020 22:10:37 #
LWW wrote:
How true.
The purpose of post processing is to ‘FIX’ a photo which could/should have been taken properly in the first place.
The purpose of post processing is to ‘FIX’ a photo which could/should have been taken properly in the first place.
Oh no that is only how it is used as a crutch. The purpose of post processing is much broader.
Oct 16, 2020 22:15:08 #
via the lens wrote:
It's just this forum, technique is alive and well in other website forums.
What website forums are they discussing technique?
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