Digital Photography, the savior or destruction of Photography?
Jun 5, 2022 11:00:31 #
Have to agree with you. I try to take the best photos in camera as possible and I do not ps them afterwards. Will touch up exposure/brightness if necessary. I hate spending all that time in front of a computer processing photos and have better things to do with my time.
Jun 5, 2022 11:18:00 #
Just got thru with reading THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S EYE by John Szarkowski. This was the second or third time I read it. Black and white photography from the 1850's to the 1960's. Works from photographers like, Edward Weston, Richard Avedon, Mathew B. Brady, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, Minor White, Dorothea Lange, Henri Carther-Bresson, Eugene Smith.
Most of these artist works were about people as they were in that time and place with many underexposed and grainy photographs. You overlook those technicalities and think about the place and time in history.
My next assignment for myself is looking at Published digital photographers that have done this kind of work in the last 22 years. Don't know where I will find them yet but I am gonna try. Does anyone know of a digital photographer that you admire? Please share.
Most of these artist works were about people as they were in that time and place with many underexposed and grainy photographs. You overlook those technicalities and think about the place and time in history.
My next assignment for myself is looking at Published digital photographers that have done this kind of work in the last 22 years. Don't know where I will find them yet but I am gonna try. Does anyone know of a digital photographer that you admire? Please share.
Jun 5, 2022 11:22:26 #
POVDOV wrote:
Just got thru with reading THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S EYE ... (show quote)
Time to start a new thread for that topic…
Jun 5, 2022 11:50:39 #
Thanks for creating this discussion.
Curmudgeon wrote:"... I both take photographs and create pictures. My photographs are Post Processed because I shoot in RAW. My photographs represent what I saw not what the camera captured. My pictures represent anything I can imagine and may or may not represent reality."
I strongly agree with that statement. Digital photography gives us the opportunity to use our photography for a variety of purposes. I document bird sightings, try my hand at landscapes and cityscapes, and create family albums. Many times I also try to create an "artistic" - for lack of a better word - image using the effects postprocessing software provides.
Perhaps we need a new more modern definition of photography.
Curmudgeon wrote:"... I both take photographs and create pictures. My photographs are Post Processed because I shoot in RAW. My photographs represent what I saw not what the camera captured. My pictures represent anything I can imagine and may or may not represent reality."
I strongly agree with that statement. Digital photography gives us the opportunity to use our photography for a variety of purposes. I document bird sightings, try my hand at landscapes and cityscapes, and create family albums. Many times I also try to create an "artistic" - for lack of a better word - image using the effects postprocessing software provides.
Perhaps we need a new more modern definition of photography.
Jun 5, 2022 13:32:32 #
Bridges wrote:
I see so many highly manipulated photos these days... (show quote)
We did manipulate photos in the Darkroom. I enjoyed the experiences of the old film cameras. But, you had to wait until your film was processed to determine that you had overexposed the entire roll, because you forgot your light meter was set for ASA 25 and you were shooting ASA 100 (or higher film) . If you didn't have a darkroom, you had to wait for processing and printing.
However, I have a digital SLR, and I enjoy it. I can see if my pix were framed right, the exposure was right and different images of the subject. Try that with a 20 exposure roll of Kodachrome. Digital is the savior of time, and chemical darkrooms. It can preserve the purist photographer and create the experiment photographer.
As to the cell phone.....the poloroid of digital photography..... well sometimes. But, I still get out in the wilds with digital SLR.
Jun 5, 2022 13:59:46 #
Longshadow, there is a rebirth in film. My local camera store sells and stocks hundreds of rolls of film. Due to OSHA the processing has sent out to a lab. Here is the twist, the negatives come back along with a digital copy and the students are allowed to print from the CD. Isn't education wonderful.
Jun 5, 2022 14:38:17 #
Dalek wrote:
Longshadow, there is a rebirth in film. My local camera store sells and stocks hundreds of rolls of film. Due to OSHA the processing has sent out to a lab. Here is the twist, the negatives come back along with a digital copy and the students are allowed to print from the CD. Isn't education wonderful.
Yup. Some are discovering film, some never left.
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