I don't think learning can ever be too easy but it sure as hell can be too damn hard! I suppose your success with the 'fire-review-fire-review' technique has more to do with how you learn and how you retain information than anything else. When I'm in testing mode (digital or traditional) I keep copious notes and make prints of my results. I've also learned to rarely really trust my digital viewfinder for much information. For one thing, it's too small to be of much use and for another it can be skewed depending on how bright the viewfinder playback is. One thing I do trust is the histogram...if it shows blown out hightlights, I underexpose or change my lighting. I don't chimp my images when I'm on a job...I get my lighting set and shoot, do one quick check of the histogram then shoot away like I did when I used film and reviewing images was a thing of the future. I don't repeat my learning every time I fire up my studio. Maybe some do but if you have to relearn it every time you do it, it would be called learning, not RElearning because that would mean you learned it in the first place. I feel as if I've fallen into a vertigo spiral :o) Anyway, I do see your point about learning via digital....that it comes so fast that perhaps (perhaps) the information doesn't really sink in to the learner and they go off to the next hurdle without really understaning what they just did. An interesting observation. It isn't how I learn but I suppose some do. Lea ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Talbot" <BobTalbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 2:53 PM Subject: Re: Suggestions and Recomendations needed > > > <<The learning curve is shorter because the learning is curtailed, > not > > because it is accelerated ;o)>> > > > > I strongly disagree, at least for me. > > Lea / Jim. > > The strong rebuttals come as no surprise. > > But this ain't about digital per se: it's about whether learning can > ever be too easy, too fast. > Sure, in the short term the "fire - review -fire -review" sequence can > lead to some good results. Does it lead to long term memory or do you > have to repeat the learning experience every time? Can it ever give > the level of expertise of some old fashioned pros who could just take > the pictures and go home knowing (that save disasters in the > developing tank) they had got the shots they were after, blind? > > [Note: even with digital you can have reviewed them OK but still lose > them (technical glitch) as you download them - often too > irreplaceable] > > I wonder what the professional teachers think on the subject - > professor Andy for instance. > > > > Bob > > >
