Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's certainly becoming more common to see the PS approach. If you look on something like photo.net, the vast majority of shots are heavily manipulated. Nothing wrong with that, but to me it's just not a photograph anymore, but a graphic. Personally I really dislike the attitude that a lot of shooters take these days, of "oh, I'll just fix it later in PS". Why not just shoot it right the first time around? Somehow strikes me as, gasp- cheating. It makes a lot of people look like they are far better photographers than they really are. I feel the same way about a lot of people I know who shoot with heavily automated cameras and claim to be 'professional' photographers, when they don't even know how to use a lightmeter, grey card or understand the relationship between asa, shutter speeds and aperture. Photography as a craft is not what it used to be. feli On Feb 26, 2005, at 11:18 AM, Kenneth Frazier wrote: > feli wrote: > >> Didn't they used to call such work a photomontage? > > Yes, and my artist friend made the same comment. The last show we > attended together featured a traveling exhibit with original prints by > HCB and many others, in one room, and in the other rooms were the > pieces > in the juried show. The contrast was striking. (What she said was: > "I > thought this was a photo show. These look like collages.") > > I should add that one of our listers had a "straight" Leica photo in > that show, and his was distinctive, to my eye, anyway. > > Ken > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > ________________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com