tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post983394971264393750..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: Film vs. Digitalamolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-12675381021910844022015-10-09T13:07:15.090-07:002015-10-09T13:07:15.090-07:00I too find the obsession with light to be ludicrou...I too find the obsession with light to be ludicrous. I try to temper my voice on ToP because I like Mike ;)<br /><br />Sure, light is a thing. It's one of many things. You cannot save a bad photo with good light, but there are many great photos that were made in un-special light.<br /><br />Good light never hurts. But it's not the fetish object some folks make it out to be.<br /><br />HCB didn't think it was very important.<br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-81981674219424691602015-10-09T10:58:09.886-07:002015-10-09T10:58:09.886-07:00I probably am that guy. teeny micro revelation I ...I probably am that guy. teeny micro revelation I had the other day was that most people tend to drag their prejudices and preferences about film photography over to the digital world.<br /><br />Mike at TOP just had a post about how photography is all about seeing the light. Everybody agreed with him,except for me, as I was a prisoner held under the sway of my micro revelation.<br /><br />I really wonder if seeing the light, and learning how to capture it in camera is the Holy Grail. You will hear folks say even a dull subject taken in great light is still a compelling image. This may or not be true. But what if we took the same photo of that dull object in lousy or boring light, but recognized what it might look like. Like Ansel's prevision.<br /><br />And then we made it look like that in Photoshop. Say we did it exactly. Would that resulting image be as respected by the vast majority of photographers as one "properly" captured when the actual light was wonderful? The sad answer is "No" - it would not be. Because "getting it right in the camera" is The Law.<br /><br />But it is The Law of film, not digital. Very few film photogs were great darkroom artists. That realm was for experts. The Art of The Craft was all about the light, and getting it right in camera.<br /><br />Well, we digital photographers have an Art of the Craft also. And it includes, or should include, using Photoshop. As I commented at TOP, maybe making photographs under great light is too easy. Maybe it's cheating. (This is slightly tongue-in-cheek)<br /><br />But seriously, what is important, surely, is our ability to make art. Our vision of the final image. What matter if the light is from the sun, from flash, or from Photoshop?Gingerbakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14211637630936981883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-32935274019121293202015-10-06T15:48:39.512-07:002015-10-06T15:48:39.512-07:00I had that hat on earlier today....I had that hat on earlier today....Kirk, Photographer/Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10817860941525302936noreply@blogger.com