Photography is a tool for my work, not and end in itself Christopher Strevens http://www.chrisspages.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Klaus Knuth Sent: 11 March 2014 02:54 To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: Re: IS PHOTOGRAPHY OVER? I haven't had the chance, but my guess is if I would ask a group of not so amateur sports photographers using their Canon 1Dx or Nikon D4 in "spray and pray mode", they would certainly not be concerned about Photoshop fixes. They are not supposed to either if they work for a paper or a magazine, trying to maintain its documentary public image. They just hope that one of those 1000+ frames turns out to be a winner. Your comment misses the point IMHO. Klaus On Mar 10, 2014, at 9:06 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2014-03-09 17:05, Jan Faul wrote: > >> Digital photographers by and large believe they can fix anything by >> running a mundane boring badly composed composition through >> Photoshop. But Photoshop is not a miracle program - it only follows >> orders and if one gives it garbage to work with that's what will also >> come out. > > This is an absurd claim. I recently presented several pairs of photos > to a group of (largely amateur, I think) sports photographers asking > which they thought were better. The answers were in terms of there > not being a story visible (or one having a better story than the > other), some issues of sightlines and directing the eye, complaints > about background clutter, and occasional remarks that "cropping can't > fix this". *Not one* of the comments was in terms of how to fix any > of the photos in Photoshop, and these are people who all shoot > digitally and in considerable quantity. > > -- > David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ > Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ > Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ > Dragaera: http://dragaera.info Nikon DSLR photo list: > http://d4scussion.com > >
