Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >On Mar 26, 2006, at 8:46 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >>> I'm finding there is too much ease in shooting, to much difficulty in >>> production. >> >> Since I read "Real World Camera Raw..." I've found that my time spent >> on production has gone *way* down :) > >Have to agree .. Bruce's discussion of proper procedures leads one to >a much more efficient way of working with RAW format captures.
I have to tell you, Godfrey, that I bought that book mainly on your (repeated) recommendations and I've become something of an evangelist for it. Bruce owes one or both of us some commissions here ;) >But beyond that consideration, I find that the vast majority of my >time "in production" is on deciding what I want to present in a >photograph, regardless of whether the capture is a film or a digital >image, and regardless of whether the process of producing a print is >the wet lab or a computer and inkjet printer. I think that "deciding what you want to present" *should* comprise the majority of production time/effort. I can't say that I'm there yet but I'm getting closer. My objective has always been to be as close as possible to the final finished image at the moment I snap the shutter (while still being *willing* to do significant post-production in the inevitable instances in which it is necessary - I'm not going to sacrifice art in the name of philosophy). I even continue to use things like split ND filters, even though plenty of people maintain that it isn't necessary with digital (you can, after all, make separate exposures for foreground and background and combine them later). I don't think there's anything ethically superior about the way I choose to do things, it just works for me on a philosophical level and, I believe, saves me time in post-production.
