Are you a true Photographer
Apr 6, 2020 23:21:31 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
If all the images used are photographs, then it is still a photograph. Computer generated images come entirely from the computer with no photographs involved. Photographers have been making composite images virtually since the invention of photography. They have always been considered photographs. Why is it different when it is done on a computer instead of a darkroom?
I guess---as long as they are using their own photographs.
Apr 6, 2020 23:21:44 #
The difference between who you are and the photographer you want to be is really just your ability to PhotoShop.
Apr 6, 2020 23:24:41 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
The difference between who you are and the photographer you want to be is really just your ability to PhotoShop.
I don't use PhotoShop, or any other Adobe products.
Apr 6, 2020 23:29:11 #
GoofyNewfie wrote:
Did you mean Vericolor?
Verichrome was black and white and and I loved it!
This was shot on film. (Probably T-Max 100) Pretty much a straight print. Not digital, other than to scan the print.
Verichrome was black and white and and I loved it!
This was shot on film. (Probably T-Max 100) Pretty much a straight print. Not digital, other than to scan the print.
Vericolor. Sorry about that. Sorta like standing in front of the fridge with the door open-- and asking--What am I here for?
Apr 6, 2020 23:45:01 #
Mac wrote:
I don't use PhotoShop, or any other Adobe products.
And?
Apr 6, 2020 23:45:04 #
scallihan
Loc: Tigard, OR
locustthorn wrote:
Seems like now days almost anyone with the Photo Shop and all the software on line consider themselves a Photographer. Seems like with all this software anyone with a little computer knowledge can doctor up a print. So many go out claiming to be Wedding and event Photographers then go into a software and make things look good. Would anyone without this software consider themselves a true Photographer? What did you do before all this software?
If someone sees photo images and opportunities everywhere, and always has a lens (camera or smartphone) at the ready, and demonstrates a sense of composition, color, and perspective, and can't imagine life without a lens, that person is a photographer.
Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, to name just 2 of many, masterfully edited their images in the darkroom. Manipulation using the tools at hand. Then came digital and software.
Then there are the snobs . . .
Apr 6, 2020 23:48:11 #
Gene51 wrote:
And?
I was responding to a comment by CHG_CANON
Apr 7, 2020 01:49:57 #
Apr 7, 2020 02:11:23 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Every successful photographer is driven by an inner voice telling them everyone else is using PhotoShop.
So what you are saying is, every successful photographer has voices in their head. Creepy...
Apr 7, 2020 02:18:10 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
The difference between who you are and the photographer you want to be is really just your ability to PhotoShop.
More ridiculous words that totally lack wisdom...
Apr 7, 2020 02:21:44 #
rmorrison1116 wrote:
More ridiculous words that totally lack wisdom...
I'm sure you gave CHG_CANON a good laugh with that response.
Apr 7, 2020 02:42:08 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
I'm sure you gave CHG_CANON a good laugh with that response.
I certainly hope so. If we can't laugh at others responses, especially the amusing, facetious or peculiar ones, what's the point?!
Apr 7, 2020 04:33:22 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
locustthorn wrote:
Seems like now days almost anyone with the Photo Shop and all the software on line consider themselves a Photographer. Seems like with all this software anyone with a little computer knowledge can doctor up a print. So many go out claiming to be Wedding and event Photographers then go into a software and make things look good. Would anyone without this software consider themselves a true Photographer? What did you do before all this software?
"True photographer" is open to interpretation. Ansel Adams was a master of masters at manipulation. Yes, it was done using film. But if you think, if he was still alive today, he would stay away from Photoshop, I think you would be greatly mistaken. If it is good enough for Ansel Adams, it is good enough for me. Should we all shoot to produce photographs that require the least amount of manipulation? Of course! But I think it is always hard to get any shot absolutely perfect, straight out of the camera, ever single time.
Apr 7, 2020 05:15:40 #
locustthorn wrote:
Seems like now days almost anyone with the Photo Shop and all the software on line consider themselves a Photographer. Seems like with all this software anyone with a little computer knowledge can doctor up a print. So many go out claiming to be Wedding and event Photographers then go into a software and make things look good. Would anyone without this software consider themselves a true Photographer? What did you do before all this software?
Perspective. compose. frame and release shutter No spray and spray. Was taught to capture.
Apr 7, 2020 05:41:20 #
You talk as if no one fiddled and diddled with pictures in the old dark room!
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