On 6 July 2010 07:17, William Robb <war...@gmail.com> wrote: > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Larry Colen" > Subject: Re: Sorting photos > > > >>> >>> Sorry, Larry, but a big part of being a photographer is learning how to >>> edit. >> >> A big part of being a photographer is knowing how to focus and set the >> exposure of your camera, how many pros do you think still shoot everything >> in full manual? I'm not looking for something that'll edit everything for >> me, I'm looking for something that'll speed up one of the most time >> consuming tasks, taking a pass through the photos, pixel peeping to see >> which ones really are sharp enough to blow up. >> > > A big part of being a technician is knowing how to set focus and exposure, > and is the easiest aspect of photography. > It's the quantifiable stuff. > This is why so many people bitch and whine when their lens isn't perfectly > sharp, or has some minor technical flaw. > They've found something they can quantify. > But it isn't photography. > Photography is about what you see and how you translate that into something > you can hold. Everything else is window dressing sent to distract us.
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