These two threads are very interesting and certainly intertwined (it
reminds me a really good Quaker meeting!)...
A lot of the discussions come down to innovation, in one way or
another, it seems to me. PS is an innovation that is helping
photographers to get more out of their photos than ever before; we're
able to create the image that we "saw" in our mind's eye at the time we
depressed the shutter button, as well as several other images, rather
than being restricted by the relatively fewer combinations of
chemicals, paper and printing conditions.
Likewise, whether in music, art/photography, writing/publishing, there
are innovations *always* occurring, lest we recreate the mousetrap the
same way, over & over, ad nauseum. For every hundred photos we take,
maybe one is decent; for every hundred photomanipulations that someone
does, only a few will be interesting, and even fewer will be
interesting to other people who don't appreciate that particular
perspective.
It's a lot like cooking spaghetti, and a lot less efficient: you'll
throw hundreds of noodles against the wall and only a few will stick.
And, if you throw your spaghetti in someone else's kitchen, different
strands will stick, because of their particular tastes. But, in each
case, the photographer/artist/muscian/writer is pushing the envelope,
hoping to find the next "thing" that expresses *their* passion, whether
we appreciate it or not...
Wasn't it Thomas Edison who discovered the lightbulb, as well as
happily discovering a thousand ways NOT to make a lightbulb???
Nowadays, there are hundreds of different lighting sources available to
us, and we have to deal with them all, somehow...
Which brings us back to cc filters or PS??? ;) VBG!
Tim!
Tim Mulholland
Illuminata Photo
Fitchburg, WI
608/628-2925
Tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.TimMulholland.com
