Hi!
"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?
Here are my cents...
I think that today the computer editing is simply yet another tool of a craft. Please excuse me while I refer to photography as craft. You see, evidently the person who produced the above statement is a professional. As such, they are supposed to know *all* the tools of the craft. Well, at least all essential tools. And this one being extremely essential.
It is like for cab drivers - they have to know to drive damn fast if their customer is willing to pay twice to get to the airport on time...
The rest is the same ol' discussion about how far a postprocessing stage can depart from the original image. Or, how fast and aggressive and reckless that cab driver can be while he gets his double pay.
Personally, which probably has little to do with Shel's question :(, I think that the less postprocessing one has to apply the better "eye" one actually has. May be some time later my view will flip to its opposite, may be not...
Shel, I hope my answer was contributive...
Boris
