Am I a Photographic Cheat?

[groovyone]

Interesting writeup on LL: Am I A Photographic Cheat?

[Tom]

Ansel Adams' had a trilogy of books that are very famous.
The Camera
The Negative
The Print

He didn't write "Press the shutter and your job is ****in done, bitches!"

[crbeveri]

I think this goes in hand with peoples talking about digital being the problem child.

Taking a picture correct in the camera then just making it better post stands out a lot more than taking a snap shot in camera then trying to polish it in post.

I firmly believe that two different people with the same post knowledge taking the same picture but one just using a snapshot and one getting it correct in camera. I firmly believe that the one who take it correct in camera will always have a better image with or without post.

[kenw]

a curious note: in the article he shows "RAW" files. Impossible. Some software rendered the RAW into a viewable format, and there are many was to render a RAW, some good, some not-so-good. Some do it well enough to just save-as, but it still isn't the RAW file you are seeing. Just because you don't 'do' anything to your RAW file and then save it, you haven't actually seen your RAW file: you saw what your software rendered. A test is to open the same RAW file in separate editors and see the differences in the way each renders it.

A technical nitpik, granted.

[Snarfy]

Digital processing is an expansion of the medium, not a form of amateur charlatanism.

[groovyone]

Originally Posted by Tom

Ansel Adams' had a trilogy of books that are very famous.
The Camera
The Negative
The Print

He didn't write "Press the shutter and your job is ****in done, bitches!"

Very true, although I would have loved to hear him say "bitches".

[kenw]

Originally Posted by Snarfy

Digital processing is an expansion of the medium, not a form of amateur charlatanism.

bingo!
(altho it has been used by professional and amateur charlatans, just as film was...ergo the reputation...)

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by Snarfy

Digital processing is an expansion of the medium, not a form of amateur charlatanism.

Aaaaaaaaaah! Chris used a big word.

You're gonna confuse some people.

[contributor_M]

Originally Posted by groovyone

Very true, although I would have loved to hear him say "bitches".

So would I.

[Tom]

This is most definitely a man who said bitches from time to time.


He doesn't always drink beer, but when he does, it is a Dos Equis.


[Photo is public domain]

[silversixx]

Raw files are "digital negatives" they require post production work. Real photographers know this. Who cares what other people think, they cant reproduce our images!!! :)

[Nikonfan]

Originally Posted by Tom

This is most definitely a man who said bitches from time to time.


He doesn't always drink beer, but when he does, it is a Dos Equis.


[Photo is public domain]

Whatever side of the tracks he is on is the right side!

[Buddha]

This sounds like an old discussion to me. Cameras and lenses don't 'see' or capture light the way the human eye does, so retouching or editing the image is a necessity.
Adams would take a week to make just one print of 'Moonrise over Hernandez'. The notes showing where to do what to the print looked like a modern day image of the circuitry in a semiconductor.

[wclavey]

Originally Posted by Nikonfan

Whatever side of the tracks he is on is the right side!

His camera has a tattoo that says "Leica."

[SueGirl]

Digital Photo has changed perceptions and cheat, lie, steal, is the new norm.

Welcome to the USA {United Scam of America} !