I feel very sympathetic to Godfrey on this issue. People who use Photoshop
(or other programs) as yet another creative tool, like a different camera,
or a different lens, often feel somewhat insulted by such phrases. The
insult isn't quite a blunt and literal statement, but just a subtle
implication that using Photoshop is something to be avoided, especially by
serious photographers. This is total nonsense. Unless it's something like a
police forensics image, it's only the final image that matters. I don't
care very much what technique was used to arrive at that final image when I
am judging the relative merits of the image.
take care,
Glen
At 10:18 AM 11/23/2005, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
"Fiddling in Photoshop" is such a disparagement. "Fun with a camera"
is a hobbyist point of view.
I do my *work* in Photoshop. That work is the effort required to
render what my 'fun with a camera' has produced into expressive forms
of representation. It's what I used to do with chemistry and an
enlarger. My 'fun with a camera' is just the other part of my
photographic work. I don't 'fiddle in Photoshop' ... I render my
photographs into reality.
