Hi All,
I would like to know your opinions regarding regular vs digital
photography. By regular - I mean the traditional way of capturing
images on photographic film vs the latest way of digital enhancing
images. These two areas of photography have their own merits and
demerits.
Regular Photography serves as a true representation of life captured
by a photographers agility and imagination. Whereas digital
photography is a representation of an artists creative imagination.
In regular photography a person is trying to capture an existing real
life image on film in the best possible way. However, in digital
photography, the image is captured and then it is polished by the
artists creative imagination using sophisticated tools.
Both types of artists are trying to portray their creativity and
imagination to a wide receptive audience. In regular photography the
resulting image is entirely dependant on the situation and the talent
of the photographer. Whereas in digital photography the results
obtained are enhanced by means of softwares and the artist relaxing
in a AC room. However, I have seen outstanding pieces of work both
in regular and digitally modified photographs.
Not to mention the cost of equipment. The equipment used in regular
photography has greater shelf longevity, which means you buy the
stuff today and you won't feel that you were a jackass at the end of
the year. However, you spend money on digital equipment today by next
christmas you feel your equipment is obsolete. Yes, Digital photo
equipment sure does open up a lot of image sharing felxibility. But
from the standpoint of photography as an art, what are you displaying
by digitally enhancing images.
So can we call pictures that were enhanced digitally as true
representation of the art of photography or are these digitally
enhanced pictures out of the perview of photography as an art.
After having said all this, my question is which one is superior? My
opinion is regular photography is always superior than digitally
enhanced photography. Hope we can build constructively on this
discussion.
Regards and a Happy Mothers Day to All- Prachicha
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