Rulers rule! Of course, it's B&W film. Color world last time I looked. Digital brought that kind of control to color photography for the typical photographer and that is the biggest advance for me.
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Tom C <caka...@gmail.com> wrote: >> And digital is perfect? >> Actually, in the real world, what rules is the media that the artist >> feels most comfortable working with. This may be digital, it may equally >> be oil paint or macrame. >> >> William Robb > > What 'digital' has done is put the entire range of the photographic > process (capture through final image processing) within reach of the > ordinary person. It's opened up the world of artistry to many more > people who otherwise were/would have been constrained to mostly > 'capture-time photography'. > > Many, if not most people interested in photography did not have the > funds, space, or time to devote to a wet darkroom. The digital > darkroom is easily obtainable and justifiable, taking up far less > space and costing less money, and it doesn't have the continued > consumable expense, aside from paper if/when printing. OK, occasional > hardware/software upgrades. > > Before DSLR's, when I bought Photoshop 3.0 and a film scanner in the > mid-90's, a whole new side of photography began to emerge. I wasn't > just limited to the locked-in post-capture image on the slide or > negative. The combination of digital capture and post-processing has > improved my output considerably and I've gone from the belief that my > 1st generation slide image was the ultimate, to believing that the > ultimate image is achieved through post-capture fine-tuning and > adjustment prior to displaying in whatever form. That, in retrospect, > while a long journey, has been liberating. (I am woman hear me roar). > > I don't particularly like sitting in front of a computer adjusting > images either (as opposed to being out seeing and capturing images). > The learning curve with complex software tools can seem overwhelming > at times, but I can imagine I far prefer it to standing in a darkroom > for hours on end, messing with smelly chemicals, and suffering the > aggravation of irrecoverably destroying a good potential image or > having to redo processes over and over because I didn't get it quite > right (all the while my eyeballs drying up and scaling over for lack > of light). It's akin to the advantages of using a word processing > program and spell checker as opposed to a typewriter ribbon, paper, > and correcting fluid. > > I didn't know you like macrame... > > Tom C. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
