Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:44 pm
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Dingus Milktoast wrote:Taken this past Sunday:
Looks weird, somehow altered.
is this the product of digital software image enhancement???
DMT
Here's the deal:
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Kodak EPN100 film has long been considered so reasonably accurate that commercial photographers made straight shots long before Photoshop even existed. Kodachrome, Provia, and Astia are other relatively color acurate films when properly exposed outdoors. If you can see outdoor beauty with your eyes, and use the right tools that can reasonably capture that light if reasonably exposed, why can't the result be appealing?
Although one can capture beautiful natural images without manipulation, photographic manipulation is as acceptable also as it is for creative oil painters. The issue is for photographers that manipulate to be honest at least in some small way with their public audience about what they are doing instead of the current status quo of saying nothing. The usual mistake of those who manipulate when debating those that don't is to infer that those that prefer natural images are condemning those that manipulate. Quite ok...but just be honest about it. Now it is true that I personally value reasonably naturally captured photographic images much more than manipulated images. And indeed so will a fair number in our public audience especially those who are not themselves photographers while good numbers of others could care less how artsy an image is.
David ...Hard to believe some still toss out that argument. It is true normal unblocked field of view of two human eyes don't see as a telephoto lens sees. But if one looks through a window and stands at varying distances from a window, one will have the exact same perspectives from tele to normal to wide. How wonderful indeed and seems rather natural to this person.
David ...That's your personal style and philosophy penninsula and perfectly acceptable. But not the only way one might pursue photographic art.
To demand that is the only path to successful photographic imagery is limited thinking and ignores the work of many including the body of work of this person.