Digital photography can provide instant gratification. One of the most often heard comments here and in other places is that people like the idea of seeing their photos immediately. They can edit on the LCD display immediately after the photo is taken. Moving to the "darkroom" side of the equation, a great many people do little or no editing of their photos, small tweaks at most, such as cropping, a little color correction, and that's about it. Instant! More advanced folks use more features in their editing software, but still don't go very far into it. And a skilled PS user can get a good result in less time than it'll take to set up the darkroom for a printing session and make some prints.
Yeah, some folks spend a long time on their photo work, but I'll bet that, had they used a darkroom previously, they spent a long time there, too, in order to get a print just right. And regardless of what work one does with editing software, the pic can be viewed on the screen and printed in less than five minutes from the time the exposure is made. And that includes boot up time <LOL> Shel Belinkoff > [Original Message] > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 5/28/2004 11:47:11 PM > Subject: Re: Darkroom or Digital for beginners > > In a message dated 5/26/2004 10:13:40 AM Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > We live in a society fuelled by instant gratification and disposable > everything. We need children today who will want to know how things work. > Our throw away culture is nothing to be proud of. > > I'm not having a 'go' Cotty, it really is for everyone's benefit, especially > today's youngsters :-) > > Malcolm > ------------------- > Well, I am late posting to this thread. > > And I have no views either way about whether to darkroom or not to darkroom. > > But I beg to differ that the digital darkroom approach provides INSTANT > gratification. Not if you really tweak stuff and are a perfectionist. That can take > hours and hours, in fact. > > Marnie aka Doe
