Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 20/9/00 10:11 pm, David Binder at dbinder@sympatico.ca wrote: > I really think that if all you are doing with digital imagery is > squeezing out a gazillion shades of grey, then you are not having fun > yet. Not that Jon Cone isn't doing an amazing job. It's just that you > can do anything you want with an image in Photoshop, paint programs > etc., without leaving the computer. Negatives and chromes are > _documents_. Digital images are whatever you want to do with them. I > can't help but wonder what goes on now in the coolscan digital world of > government press in some parts of the globe. Theoretically, I agree. In practice, when photographers start manipulating their images 'creatively' in photoshop, they mostly produce sophomoric junk. I've seen it, you've seen it, we've all seen it. You know I'm right! - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com