http://rising.blackstar.com/the-digital-influence.html Professional Photography Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:56:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://rising.blackstar.com/the-digital-influence.html/comment-page-1#comment-324 Charles Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:12:59 +0000 #comment-324 I started photography right on the cusp of the "digital revolution". In design school, we shot color film, had it processed and scanned the negs. I felt cheated. As a combat cameraman in the Marines, the year I got to my first duty station, was the first year they used their darkroom as a storage closet. I finally bought a home darkroom setup and learned to process and print black and white film. I love it. I love the print. People say that you can do anything digital that you can do with film. Even my boss a vietnam veteran combat cameraman who tells stories of souping film in combat helmets by a river on a moonless night says I'm wasting my time in the darkroom. I still maintain that there is a difference in the final print. That's the thing. People are so used to looking at pictures on Flickr and in e-mails that they forget that it's the print that matters. Maybe it's not better or worse, I just think it's more artsy. I've seen tutorials on how to get that film look. I've got your tutorial: "Shoot film" Don't get me wrong. I still shoot digital, but you wont catch me trying to get the film look with it. I started photography right on the cusp of the "digital revolution". In design school, we shot color film, had it processed and scanned the negs. I felt cheated. As a combat cameraman in the Marines, the year I got to my first duty station, was the first year they used their darkroom as a storage closet. I finally bought a home darkroom setup and learned to process and print black and white film. I love it. I love the print. People say that you can do anything digital that you can do with film. Even my boss a vietnam veteran combat cameraman who tells stories of souping film in combat helmets by a river on a moonless night says I'm wasting my time in the darkroom. I still maintain that there is a difference in the final print. That's the thing. People are so used to looking at pictures on Flickr and in e-mails that they forget that it's the print that matters. Maybe it's not better or worse, I just think it's more artsy. I've seen tutorials on how to get that film look. I've got your tutorial: "Shoot film" Don't get me wrong. I still shoot digital, but you wont catch me trying to get the film look with it.

]]> http://rising.blackstar.com/the-digital-influence.html/comment-page-1#comment-323 mark Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:54:05 +0000 #comment-323 I think digital photography combined with Photoshop makes photographers less careful, less thoughtful about each shot they take. Whatever you do wrong can be cleaned up afterward. So I think it makes photography less of an art and more of a craft. Obviously, there's no substitute for the great photographer's vision ... but...when you take enough photos, as the saying goes "even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then" .... meaning that with enough volume, vision is not always required. I think digital photography combined with Photoshop makes photographers less careful, less thoughtful about each shot they take. Whatever you do wrong can be cleaned up afterward. So I think it makes photography less of an art and more of a craft. Obviously, there's no substitute for the great photographer's vision ... but...when you take enough photos, as the saying goes "even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then" .... meaning that with enough volume, vision is not always required.

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