On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:00:51AM -0500, Aaron Reynolds wrote: > > On Mar 26, 2006, at 7:20 AM, Colin J wrote: > > >I couldn't agree more. Digital is powerful and > >versatile. But it's a chore. I didn't take up > >photography to be tied to a computer. You might > >be able to do much more with Photoshop than a > >traditional enlarger, but where is the > >satisfaction in that? > > > >Photography is a craft. Digital imaging is a > >science. Working at a craft is infinitely more > >satisfying, and I think it's a lot more fun. > >Working at science is just a chore. > > Why is one a craft and one a science? They're both craft and science. > And 15 years of pro darkroom made me bored as hell with the darkroom -- > it became a chore. The darkroom is just a different set of chores from > the computer. One is not intrinsically less "work" than the other.
If I like doing it, it's a craft. If you like doing it, but I don't, then it's a chore, and obviously intrinsically less worthwhile. That, in a nutshell, is what most of these posts boil down to - an attempt to rationalise one particular set of prejudices.
