----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I saw what the film > shooters meant as they later talked about returning to a location at > different times, on different days to get the sky just right. > 'Composition is great but the sky is too flat in this picture...no > problem, we'll photoshop a new one in!' left them in tears. > > Now that makes me uneasy. I want to know that that beautiful > landscape is real, not a 'collage' of great individual photos. I want > to see an image capture of a spectacular moment in the real world. > Otherwise it's just a painting in digital. I am with you 100%, Bob. This is the way I personally approach my photography. I try to get it all right and if it doesn't work, I hit the delete button. I would not consider "photoshopping" in a new sky, etc. However, my only point of contention is that even composites, collages, whatever, ARE photography or part of the photographic process, in direct conflict to what Shel had originally posted. Christian
