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AuntiPode wrote:
Exactly! That's why I made the effort to learn Photoshop. Maybe the camera doesn't lie, but it can dramatically understate.
That's exactly why digital photography was designed with a linear gamma profile, so that it could make the capture, then the processing profile could be custom designed infinitely to accommodate infinite situations (in theory at least).
Granted, most folks prefer the expedience of using the camera's processing or the more routine way of doing things that are global, simple or preset algorithms. I'll likely never really master PS, but I'm still an ardent believer that what comes out of the camera is only the start, rarely the finished product. Philosophically, it seems like digital cameras only make negatives and apply (mostly) standard processing. For scenes that require non-standard processing profiles, it requires the touch of a thinking, decision making person as to how to proceed with such atypical captures ... kinda like the difference between a short order cook vs. a chef ... one replicates and executes, the other designs and creates.
Glad, my pp struck a chord on this one, but I still feel like I came up way short on what it could/should be.
People advocate shooting RAW for a lot of reasons, one being that future development of software improvements will let you "revisit" images later. I'm inclined to think that the "future development" is my learning curve of knowledge and skill at handling PS (much to learn, long way to go). I think about AA and how his years of progression in the darkroom progressed, or like Kaden today with his tenuous efforts. Many people don't have the tenacity as AA or Kaden regarding processing vs. shutter capturing, but I'm still inclined to think that for some, the greatness of an image is in the finishing as much as it is in the capture.
Years of shooting chrome, meant that you had to develop your capture skills because there was essentially no latitude in the film profile @ processing. Now in digiital, we have to develop our processing skills, because there is no profile (i.e. linear) at capture and the camera's processing can't cover the demands of what we expect from it when we give it such wide and variable ranges to contend with.
Still ... must have been glorious to see in person, the image burned in Jim's mind will always outshine the injustice we can likely provide.
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