Kyle;401546 Wrote: > Yeah, I enjoyed the darkroom work, but it's been years. I can still > smell those chemicals, though. I bought a film Nikon and some nice > lenses 6-7 years ago when digital was still young, but I just didn't > use it enough and ended up selling it all on ebay when I got into > digital. I'm still using a basic p&s camera, but I do some retouching > with The Gimp (open-license program similar to Photoshop), and it's > fun. It's amazing how images can be manipulated digitally. I remove > power lines, open half-closed eyes, remove zits, darken and blur > background distractions -- all kinds of things. Purists would probably > scoff, but if they knew what went on in darkrooms, it's really not much > different.
There are certainly two trains of thought on manipulation of photos. Some feel they are historical recordings and shouldn't be changed and others are considering the image and it's short comings. I'm sure most would agree Ansel Adams was a noteable photographer and yet he probably never printed an image without doing his "dance". I can see both sides and I maintain they are both correct in their own context. Nothing wrong with correcting a models blemishes. It's not a historical accounting of anything. On the other hand adding or subtracting from an image that is a historical accounting is wrong unless it is clear the image has been changed for artistic purposes. In 2000 I started to carry a little Olympus P&S digital camera telling myself I would use it as a tool with my film cameras to preview composition and the such. It wasn't long before I was addicted and started the move to digital. These guys at Nikon, Canon, etc. know what they're doing :-) Well, except they may have overextended themselves to Ritz :-) Howard -- Howard Passman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Passman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60528 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
