This is nothing new. Happened with film just about different stuff. There are just more people making noise now.
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Kostas Papakotas <clenchedteethphotography@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
OK, Rant mode on….Do you feel that we have focused so hard on digital techno stuff that we have lost the real object?Since I discovered an issue with my pentax underexposing shots I –for the first time after the purchase- have delved into the technical camera details.Somehow I found myself watcghing a video review of the newest Pentax, but I did not go further than 2.5 minutes of the 17.And I was astounded for seeing people fighting over forums for the techno stuff.I feel strange seeing others worshiping the histogram.It tells me nothing! I mean I do not need it to tell me that my shots are underexposed! I can see it in the highlights and in the darks of the photograph itself!And all this “exposing for the right of the histogram” thing?Or adjusting in CameraRAW to fill the space?Of course you do! You have started with a bad photo (not properly exposed)Well, you let the smart meter do the job, now you pay with hours of editing.Didn’t anyone tell you that there are 8 stops between the black and the white (OK OK that is for the film), and you have to CHOOSE what you will loose by exposing for what you think is important?Ok, rant is off…..
