Color laser printers made professional printers out of everyone....
Software like Word made professional writers out of everyone....
Software like InDesign made professional layout artists out of everyone....
Video cameras and YouTube made professional videographers out of everyone....
Digital cameras have made professional photographers out of everyone....
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So you're saying that Ansel Adams was not a true photographer?
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BTW. A man took a photo of his daughter in the bathtub and showed it to his neighbor, who in turn, notified police. He was charged with child pornography and WAS convicted and sentenced to 10 years in jail. I think this was in Ohio about 20 yrs ago.
I believe that was overturned on appeal because the judge, who had a picture of his naked self as a baby, didn't want to press child pornography charges against his parents. All became right in the world again when a judge used some common sense in determining the rule of law.
Hey, Bob - I've always believed that what comes out of the camera is just the basics to start with. Back in the dark ages we then developed the picture in the darkroom using special chemicals, dodging, burning, different papers, different filters. Oh we had so much fun. We still develop our pictures except now it is in a different type of darkroom, but a darkroom nonetheless. Although I had lots of fun in the dark ages, I do like the new darkrooms better.
I have had Canon cameras all my life, starting with the Canon A1 by in the '70s. My latest is a Canon 550D (I imported it from London; here in America it would be called a Rebel T2i).
I originally shot in high-resolution JPG. Then I switched to RAW + JPG. Once I got comfortable with RAW, I switched to just RAW. I originally was working with the free programs (GIMP, Picasa, Picnik) and couldn't find a program that I liked.
Then I found Lightroom 3 at a friend's house. I downloaded the free trial version and got addicted to it. I now have Lightroom 3.5, but I still needed more for what I do, so I explored Corel Photopaint Pro X4, CorelDraw X5, and Photoshop CS5. I really like all three of them, but Photoshop CS5 seems to be all the other programs, free and otherwise, rolled into one.
Now that I have my workflow set up in Photoshop CS5, it's no problem to quickly get a jpg if I need one.
Hope this helps someone.
All else being equal, ever since Paul Simon sang about Nikon back in 1971 or so, Nikon has been more expensive than Canon, Minolta, Olympus, Pentax, etc.
If I'm doing basic stuff, I like Lightroom 3.5. If I'm getting into trickier stuff, I use Photoshop CS5 or Paintshop Pro X4.
To me a snapshot is what comes out of the camera, any camera. A photograph is what that snapshot becomes once we process it in the darkroom. Of course, today's darksrooms are digital photo editing software programs like Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, Gimp, Picasa, Picnik, etc.