Bob W wrote:
Perhaps some people feel, as I do, that the buzzwords
surrounding digital are annoying. For example, I did a lot
of darkroom work for many years.
Never once did I use the term "workflow." I just went into
the darkroom and made some prints. Until recently, until the
advent of digital, people made photos, they didn't "capture
images."
Hi Shel,
you're not entirely innocent of language abuse yourself! In the olden days
nobody made photographs, they took them. Personally, one of my bugbears is
the idea of 'making' photographs. I think it sounds really pretentious.
Ciao! <g>
Bob
You can blame St Ansel for that one. All of his writing is about making
a photograph, not taking one. And I do think it's an essential
difference in approach to photography.
HCB took photographs. Ansel Adams made them. Both were artists. But one
spent all of his effort on the initial capture (composition and the
decisive moment), and the other spread his effort out throughout the
process from composition to the final print.
-Adam
