Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/21
[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 hey johnny, watch it! that's *artistic* sophmoric junk we're talking about here. guy