----- Original Message ----- From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi"
Subject: Re: PP: Digital Grain
An aesthetic preference for the texture of grain in an image is fine. A photographer should be able to define whatever texture they prefer that expresses their intent. With film, you have to learn how to muck with the medium in order to achieve the texture you want. With a digital image, you can manipulate the rendering at will more easily since digital does a better job of recording light and produces renderings with fewer defects.
So when you do these manipulations, is the intent to make things look as real as possible, introducing no biases of your own?
Or is there some aesthetic latitude given, perhaps analogous to choosing a particular film becuase of a certain visual treatment that it renders.
Please note that granularity or lack of same is a non starter for me, since it is easily controlled by limiting the amount of magnifications given to the film, and/or by choosing films with grain patterns that match a particular desire.
William Robb
