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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
Nice way to travel, having fun AND getting paid for it. All digital these days I suppose.
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Absolutely digital. I switched to digital 7-8 years ago and never looked back. I continued with film for underwater shooting for another year or two, but then went digital for that too.
America's famous photographer, perhaps THE most famous, Ansel Adams, was quoted as saying "For every hour I spend behind the camera, I spend 100 in the darkroom adjusting the picture." With digital, the darkroom is "PhotoShop," and instead of it taking 100 hours, corrections take just a few minutes... at most, an hour. And there's no waste. We used to throw away 100 or more negatives for each one we kept. That was all money down the drain. I'd have to shoot three or more frames for every image I shot, bracketing the exposure to insure correct lighting. Today, I look at the histogram on the back of the camera and can see immediately if I need to make adjustments. And when I look at the shot on the computer, can make complete adjustments ever further. With film I needed to be within 1 f/stop to make corrections. With digital, I can underexpose 4-5 f/stops and still bring up the image perfectly with PhotoShop. A couple of minutes of photo correction and turn garbage into a decent photograph. For example;
This:
becomes this:
... in less than two minutes work! ... and made it into a dive shop's brochure. (Well, not 'this' one, but its brother that I spent five minutes on instead of two...)
God Bless digital...
Stitchawl