Pooh-Bah
Joined: Sep 2005
Portland Oregon
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You almost sound like somone who is bitter because they chose film.
I chose film because the quality, because I would hate if I have to project my pictures in less than 2 Megapixel resolution with an ugly screendoor effect on them, when the curves and diagonal lines turn into a staircase.
I choose film, because, I have the skill to shoot on film.
I'm didn't swich over te digital, because once you swich over, the digital tech gonna swich over you too! You are not a same anymore, and instead of looking for and captureing the beauty of the nature, you looking for easy to use digital effect to make your picture more interesting.
From a photo artist you turn into a picture manufacturer, using easy to use digital effects which make your pictures interesting.
From the sahrphooter you turn into a machinegunner.
I don't want this change. If I can't continue with slides, I quit. The forthcoming era for cheaters, and for dishonest people.
Unless the digital art is separate from photography.
And i'm talking about mostly the next generation of photographers, who get even less skill or even no skill at all about photography. They are already here!
Interesting. I dont know what circles you run in...but the photographers I see as my peers are digital and VERY ethical in their photography. They are all using classic photographic skillsets that apply to film or digital.
Photography is still photography. Sure, some of the less professional people rely on photoshop to make up for lack of skill...but you know that it actually shows up in the end product. I can spot a bad photoshop job a mile away.
And photography rules still apply to digital...even more so if you want to squeeze the most from their files.
And having tools that you can "Cheat with" dosnt automatically make you a lazy photograper. I would actually say I have slowed down. I find a scene. Walk the scene, find my composition, take out my external meter, measure a baseline of light (incident reading) then use the spot meter to figure out highlights to shadows so I know where to place my exposure to capture the most in my file that I can. I take into consideration any light that might be beyond the dynamic range of the camera, I have my end goal in mind when I trip the shutter.
These are all photograhic skills that apply to digital OR film.
Photoshop only makes you lazy if your a lazy photographer. But going digital hasnt made me lazy...actually quite the opposite, It has made me realize that I have a LOT more growing to do...and allows me less stress out in the field as I know when I leave, I have captured exactly what I have intended to capture. I spent an entire day on a job shooting bull run for them. It is a protected wilderness that is quite beautiful. I walked away with about, oh 50 frames from the day of shooting. All 50 are quite usable. I dont blast away hoping to get one shot right....I take my time and make each peice a usable shot.
So I am living proof that "going digital" dosnt mean being a lazy photographer. Thats more about who you are...and not what you shoot with.
Your logic seems a bit backwards.
I choose digital because I have the capacity to grasp not only the capture of a proper photograph, I am in complete control from the capture to the print. This included many diciplines of Photography, Post Processing, Web presentation, and mastering printing. I would argue that digital has pushed me to be a better photographer.
You wear film photography like this red chip on your shoulder and you speak as if no digital photographer is legitimate. And you speak as if you went digital you would be come unethical as well. If that is true, it would say more about you and your internal ethics than demonizing digital photography into a "Cheater Maker".
I would challenge you that if your ethic are high, that instead of complaining (which fixes nothing) that you become a positive embassador of photogrpahy insted of disgruntled. You will surly elicit much more change with a positive helpful attitude than a scouling negitive one.
Roman
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