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Old November 2nd 09, 10:24 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
Bob Williams
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Default 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.

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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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