Well written piece that I greatly relate to and appreciate. I'd even suggest that the need to relinquish the technical aspects of photography to allow for creative renewal have always existed, pre and post digital. I could understand a case for it being greater today with the steady flow of new technical advancements in equipment and software. Irregardless, the message in your piece, I believe, is incredibly important for photographers and artists alike, that there is a need to free your creative process to ensure its ongoing existence. Thanks again.
Thank you, Bill. Yesterday I was scanning some black and white negatives from 40-plus years ago, trying my best to make them sharper, when in reality they were just fine as they were.
I do cut commercial photographers a little slack. They are forced by market demands to produce perfect images that are generally over processed. The rest of us have no real excuse for subverting the basic shooting skills that made our medium great in the first place. See Forensic Foraging and William C. Crawford on Instagram.
Photographers need to reclaim our medium. Modern cameras have fantastic technical capabilities. Why on earth is so much computer manipulation generally accepted in post processing?! If the majority of us stop doing heavy post processing, then some integrity might be restored. Doesn’t anybody realize that if you have to use a lot of computer manipulation, then it means that you are a weak photographer with poor basic skills. You have to work pretty hard to shoot good stuff straight out of the camera. Any dumb ass can produce great images with heavy computer manipulation!! It is a lazy man’s tool driven by the technophiles among us and perverse marketing from some software companies. We suffer from an insidious sickness which will eventually totally cripple our great art form. I don’t own a post processing application because I am trying to save photography and I am still trying be a real photographer. Just take post processing off your devices and man up!!
Well written piece that I greatly relate to and appreciate. I'd even suggest that the need to relinquish the technical aspects of photography to allow for creative renewal have always existed, pre and post digital. I could understand a case for it being greater today with the steady flow of new technical advancements in equipment and software. Irregardless, the message in your piece, I believe, is incredibly important for photographers and artists alike, that there is a need to free your creative process to ensure its ongoing existence. Thanks again.
Cheers, Chipper. Thanks for reading!
Thank you, Bill. Yesterday I was scanning some black and white negatives from 40-plus years ago, trying my best to make them sharper, when in reality they were just fine as they were.
True dat.
Amen, bro!
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I do cut commercial photographers a little slack. They are forced by market demands to produce perfect images that are generally over processed. The rest of us have no real excuse for subverting the basic shooting skills that made our medium great in the first place. See Forensic Foraging and William C. Crawford on Instagram.
Photographers need to reclaim our medium. Modern cameras have fantastic technical capabilities. Why on earth is so much computer manipulation generally accepted in post processing?! If the majority of us stop doing heavy post processing, then some integrity might be restored. Doesn’t anybody realize that if you have to use a lot of computer manipulation, then it means that you are a weak photographer with poor basic skills. You have to work pretty hard to shoot good stuff straight out of the camera. Any dumb ass can produce great images with heavy computer manipulation!! It is a lazy man’s tool driven by the technophiles among us and perverse marketing from some software companies. We suffer from an insidious sickness which will eventually totally cripple our great art form. I don’t own a post processing application because I am trying to save photography and I am still trying be a real photographer. Just take post processing off your devices and man up!!