On 2015-10-25 10:25, Savageduck wrote:

Traditional wet darkroom work is by definition pure photography. One
uses light from an enlarger, passing through a negative to "paint with
light". Dodging and burning to modify the print is photography. This is
photography in its essential form, and is an integral part of creating
an image by recording a scene or subject with light.
This is why the wet darkroom played a major part in the creative process
of photographers like Adams. His works were not just products of the
camera, and that is a reason they might be emulated but not truly
reproduced by photographers shooting the same scenes.

Digital post processing is something else all together. It is digital
mimicry of the darkroom process.

It is mimicry where the processes are analogs of the darkroom processes.
But it's also introduced a wealth of new techniques and abilities that
were impossible or impractical in a wet darkroom.