Simviation Forum - Digital Imaging vs Photography

Reply #15 - Jan 25^th, 2008 at 11:30am

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Tom... wrote on Jan 25^th, 2008 at 11:27am:

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Brett_Henderson wrote on Jan 25^th, 2008 at 9:31am:

My brother taught me the secret to taking great photos .. "Shoot lots of film ! "... so along those lines.. digital cameras are superior to film... You can snap away for a fraction of the cost

Not every-one agrees with your brother, I pick my shots, I don't just click and hope.

You sound somewhat like a Sniper Shocked

That's good, they hit their targets every time rather than blaze away dozens of shots and only hit the target about 30% of the time. Tongue

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Reply #16 - Jan 25^th, 2008 at 11:41am

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Hey .. whatever works for ya Wink

I've always found that the best shots are impromptu... You can spent all your time pondering and composing.. but when you sit down to sort through your shots, the best ones aren't ones the ones you thought would be best..

Edit:.. Even in studio situations, where even the lighting is controlled.. a photographer will let that motor-drive whiz away.. sometimes not even looking through the camera..

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Reply #17 - Jan 25^th, 2008 at 12:03pm

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I take photography at college and my teacher wants to murder me if I mention digital. Roll Eyes

You do learn a lot from doing the old stuff though, but digital is the way forward! Wink

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Reply #18 - Jan 25^th, 2008 at 1:28pm

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I remember seeing a few famous photographers say they prefer digital over old film, because then can develop there photo's a lot quiker nowadays.

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Reply #19 - Jan 25^th, 2008 at 2:03pm

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I understand that film-photography is an art on it's own, but a bit oldfashioned. After all, deverlopement is a form of editting too. Photographers just had more time-consuming work than nowadays.

But the principles are still the same. If you don't invest some time to learn about lighting, aperatures, shuttertimes, depth of field, composition, etc., you'll never take good shots.

Everyone can pick up a camera and take a snapshot. But it takes lots of practice to see a good photo-opportunity and getting a result as you had in mind. I agree with Sierra Hotel that there's no such thing as instant succes.

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Reply #20 - Jan 25^th, 2008 at 3:12pm

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Omag 2.0 wrote on Jan 25^th, 2008 at 2:03pm:

I understand that film-photography is an art on it's own, but a bit oldfashioned. After all, deverlopement is a form of editting too. Photographers just had more time-consuming work than nowadays.

But the principles are still the same. If you don't invest some time to learn about lighting, aperatures, shuttertimes, depth of field, composition, etc., you'll never take good shots.

Everyone can pick up a camera and take a snapshot. But it takes lots of practice to see a good photo-opportunity and getting a result as you had in mind. I agree with Sierra Hotel that there's no such thing as instant succes.

I agree, and I am very glad that I know how to develop my own film and prints. Learning the 'old-skool' way has really helped me to learn more about my photos and how to compose them rather than pointing and shooting.

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Reply #21 - Jan 25^th, 2008 at 10:20pm

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Papa9571 wrote on Jan 25^th, 2008 at 9:15am:

The February 1982 cover photo of Egypt pyramids were squeezed together to fit the covers vertical format using a Scitex computer digitizer.

A picture story on Poland in April of the same year contained a cover photograph that combined an expression on a man's face in one frame with a complete view of his hat in another picture. Both cover images were altered without a hint of possible detection and without a note to readers that such manipulation was performed.

All of these tricks are very possible with chemical-based photography, but like producing excellent photos with chemicals, it's more art than science. And if you think nobody's ever cheated with that format and not told anybody, take a look at any Playboy centerfold prior to about 1995. Grin

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