hhee yeah!! <br />Long live digital photography...made with a camera, emotions, feelings, technical knowledge, a good eye...and not with a computer. ;) :congrats :congrats :congrats :congrats
Same story as vinyl :) It´s called "progress". I feel lucky I can still buy oilpaint! Or watercolours for that matter. I´ve been to exhibitions where digital works have been displayed, and what I find is, is that it lacks all emotions. Yes it does tell stories, but it´s so incredibly "not human" . <br />The digital revolution has raised the level of abstract, meaning, there is no meaning to it :)
Excellent thread Artur and so true! :)
Welcome to the world of the dinosaurs Artur... ;) It´s happening with everything... music, food, television... sometimes I feel like an alien on my own planet!
I feel they are wrong. Photography should be taught from the ground up. If they don´t want to learn it that way , let them take it as a seperate class "digital arts". |O|
Yes CA, I agree with you, the problem here - and not only here but will be a "spread one" in the very near future is that: 1 - they will find all the classes that do teach the baic photographic skills wit no interest whatsoever as they are so used to get the things done on a computer, that they will "correct" anything in post processing; 2 - in terms of the analogue darkroom, it will be more difficult as if the "hardware" ( chemicals, papers, etc ) is getting harder to find, how can a teacher give lessons ? My point of view, due to the digital era would be ( and if I run a photography school ) to give the deep knowledge on how to understand a digital camera, pixels, resolutions, per pixel sharpness, sensors, effects of light on different sensors and processors - in this way they could understand much better the specifications of different cameras and to choose the right one to use - and then to teach the art of composition and the game between light and shadow. Then I would teach the corrcet way of using post processment software: the basic way - would say the "pure way" that would be to "develop" the image as they have imagined it, but being faithfull to the image itself, and then a more "advanced way" - for advertising and specific aplications - that woul be for instance, to put a lion making waterski. Photography students that want to follow photography as a career do have to options if they want to earn money from photography: or the artistic way - making stock photos or they own photography with no concessions - very hard to earn money from this, but where they have to have a deep knowledge of the camera and of composition and not so much on the post processing software - or advertising photography, where they have to know deeply how to master the software and not so much the camera and the compo. The difference between these two kinds of photographers are huge, but they are both valid. They are two kind of different artists. Different ones for sure. However - and that´s what I am going to do with my youngest son - they should have specific assigments on the ground to follow a given theme, go for image hunting and then to discusss what is right or wrong with the captured image, listen their opinions and why they have made that specific shot and wether they should or not, to post process them, and how to process them in order not tom loode the essence of the captured image. After that - the knowledge of following or not what shoukd be done - they are free to make whatever they want with their images, but at least they would know the difference between what should or not be done. |O|
I see this issue as "old" versus "new". In many ways, the digital camera does the developing preprocessing. It´s quicker, and software will be used to post process any picture. As you say, it requires different skills and therefore a different talent. If you come from classic schooling ( as me ) it should be the question if you are able to stay "young" and convert to newer methods, or stick to your old guns. Basically photography is about capturing the right moment with the "correct" settings. And it is about composition. From there on it is up to the person to find out what (s)he likes best.
Do you have blue-prints and drawings of how the old, old, cameras, and photograph developing process was done? That is art too. I like computer circuts and CPU architecture. :o
