My rant is simply that I can't find a roll of black and white film anywhere, what ever happened to good old learn how to use your camera and spend days getting it just right so you can learn all over again for the next set of circumstances.
In school we learned to develop our pictures not to photoshop. We also made our own large format (8X10) bellows cameras out of and old Canon screw mount lens, hockey sticks, felt and plywood, still have that somewhere in a box, took amazing pictures.
I guess now people have to learn a new set of skills than we did, not better, just different.
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
And that's the point! We no longer ask why we look so 'un-lifelike' in our photos. We just accept what the 1-hour developer gives us, or what pops out of the countertop machine at the Supermarket. Fortunately, we have the tools to put back the 'life' into our photos, and we don't have to attend long and complicated lecture seminars to learn how to use them. Here is a photo as shot, then one I spent less than three minutes correcting using only automatic settings...
(As you can see, being in a hurry I didn't add in the areas under the canopy to my selection when I increased the saturation of the sky.)
That's what we used to get from our old 1-week develpers, or what anyone can do today with three minutes pushing buttons in Photoshop.
The Camera can only 'see' just so much. It uses little computers inside to figure out 'average' settings so the picture will come out 'acceptable.' It's up to us to turn 'acceptable' back into 'natural. Fortunately, that's easy to do.
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