AMEN! I cannot state this strongly enough. There is no esthetics in a camera. You may have some gimmicky selections to "look like film X" or some one else's concept of a "sunset" picture. But to a very large extent it is a guess. Algorithms that give some imagined average idea of "good"
Photography by definition is an abstraction of reality, so don't tell me you don't make adjustments on this abstraction. When you print film, you always "interpret" it. If your enlarger had an "AUTO" setting, would you use it every time? So why do you use Photoshop's _ Average_ with every picture?
You might as well never spot your prints for dust. Oh, wait! That is a post exposure manipulation isn't it?
PLEASE finish you photos, don't toss them to the winds of AUTO, because you think it makes you a purist...
Most of the 'Old Masters'.... A. Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Weston.. Ect... did HUGE amounts of dodging and burning, selective developing and even image bleaching with Potassium ferricyanide..
Dodging and Burning, selective focus and fixing exposure variations are Photo-101 (95 really) and are the simplest thing.. Jr HS photo class teaches it...
I knew exactly ONE person while I was heavy in that industry that believed 'He.. IS an ARTEEST!!' printed everything straight... Mostly his pix looked like 18% grey cards.. somehow, some way, it became 'hip' to think that post processing is 'WRONG!!'
It was a fact of life in the film era.. and it should be a fact of life now as well..
The Flip Side:
Anyone who says "Don't worry about it, I can fix it in post" Is a Douchecanoe of the highest order of magnitude... LOL...
My goal in camera, is for the hardest thing I do in post.. is add my watermark... (and hide UFO's)
AMEN! I cannot state this strongly enough. There is no esthetics in a camera. You may have some gimmicky selections to "look like film X" or some one else's concept of a "sunset" picture. But to a very large extent it is a guess. Algorithms that give some imagined average idea of "good"
ReplyDeletePhotography by definition is an abstraction of reality, so don't tell me you don't make adjustments on this abstraction. When you print film, you always "interpret" it. If your enlarger had an "AUTO" setting, would you use it every time? So why do you use Photoshop's _ Average_ with every picture?
You might as well never spot your prints for dust. Oh, wait! That is a post exposure manipulation isn't it?
PLEASE finish you photos, don't toss them to the winds of AUTO, because you think it makes you a purist...
BUTT BUTT!!! IAAAHHHH AM AN ARRRRRTEEEESTTT...
ReplyDeleteActually.. Other than some very minor tweaking.. My last set of Images was just ABOUT straight off the card..
ReplyDeleteMost of the 'Old Masters'.... A. Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Weston.. Ect... did HUGE amounts of dodging and burning, selective developing and even image bleaching with Potassium ferricyanide..
ReplyDeleteDodging and Burning, selective focus and fixing exposure variations are Photo-101 (95 really) and are the simplest thing.. Jr HS photo class teaches it...
I knew exactly ONE person while I was heavy in that industry that believed 'He.. IS an ARTEEST!!' printed everything straight... Mostly his pix looked like 18% grey cards.. somehow, some way, it became 'hip' to think that post processing is 'WRONG!!'
It was a fact of life in the film era.. and it should be a fact of life now as well..
The Flip Side:
Anyone who says "Don't worry about it, I can fix it in post" Is a Douchecanoe of the highest order of magnitude... LOL...
My goal in camera, is for the hardest thing I do in post.. is add my watermark... (and hide UFO's)
My 02¢