----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff"
Subject: Taking, Making, Creating Images
The Luminous Landscape has an article by Pete Myers on the value of post-production editing for photographers:
"What I am suggesting is that the real power of photography in our modern
digital age is in using the computer in making an image... I really don't
care all that much about what the picture looks like that I took in the
field - I care about what I can make of the image in postproduction.
Certainly that does not excuse me from doing my best in taking a picture in
the field, but the point is what happens in the field is not an end all -
it's a beginning."
Any comments on this?
It's the way it has always been. All the computer has done is make very real looking manipulations easier.
William Robb
