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Is photography going downhill with digital?
eNo wrote:
Has the digital revolution reduced or improved the overall quality of photographs? The argument one often hears goes something like this: back in the old days, when people shot film (thump chest as needed), they took more time to consider a shot, but now with digital, people mindlessly click away with no concern for what they are capturing. In addition, digital has brought about a proliferation of photographers; now anyone (raise nose as needed) can take a photo, and this has led to an oversupply of particularly poor images that drown the few good ones some still manage to take. read the rest at http://esfotoclix.com/blog1/?p=789 I can only speak from my own personal experience. I started shooting film in 1947 and it became a serious hobby for at least 50 years. I had a B/W and Color Darkroom and developed and printed many of my own pictures especially the winners. I probably shot about 500 pics a year and got about 50 keepers, that I enlarged to 5x7 (Paper and Chemicals were very expensive in those days....especially color). In 2000 I started taking digital photos. I also took a course in Photoshop to be able to edit the images correctly and bought a photo quality inkjet printer to produce 8x10s of my keepers. The whole world changed almost overnight. I took way more pictures, experimented more, tried out novel lighting techniques, stitched panoramic images together and did a bunch of things that I had wanted to do with film but resisted, because of the cost of processing the images. The quality of my images improved dramatically, especially when tweaked in PS. Now, I have so many 8x10 keepers that storing and presenting them properly is a major challenge. Hey! I shoot a lot of crap too because I experiment so much....but only the keepers get shown to the rest of the world. I think that because so many people are shooting digital pictures today and displaying everything they produce, you invariably see a lot more really boring and poorly executed pictures. OTOH. I see a whole lot more, really excellent pictures that just were never seen in the "film days". Bob Williams |
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