Automation has nothing to do with light, form and composition, and everything to do with being a photographer. If anything, automation has permitted photographers to concentrate more on light, form and composition rather than technical minutiae. The strength of an image is what counts and the average viewer couldn't care less whether it was done with an 8x10 view camera or an auto everything P&S. Photographers get paid to create images and not twirl dials.
It's the wishful thinking of the masters of an arcane craft that the pcitures created by photographers who have started since the early 80's are inferior to older photographers. This is like saying that Shakespeare wrote as well as he did because he used a quill pen. BR From: Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No... that wasn't what I was trying to say. My point was that I don't believe that (in general) photographers who learned their craft back in the days before automated cameras have lost their appreciation of light, form and composition, and that in my opinion a more interesting issue is what the effect of automation on new photographers is.
