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 Re: Have we become allergic to contrast? | |
Looked like a mix of two differnt (mis)conceptions:
Firstly, there is nothing technically bad in capture all available brightness range.
Secondly, there is no good not to know what to do with it.
In film days they used to say 'shoot soft, print contrast' i.e. you can and have to choose how to develop and print 'cause print media (not a screen In the age of HDR displays) is always very limited by nature.
Choosing a particular narrow range inside captured wider is a very demanding creative moment of work. It is not limited nowadays by single try (when you choose film and developer) but still demanding, like proper framing.
Obsession with highest possible DR is somewhat similar to idea of capture infinite DOF and wide possible angle i.e. to shoot everything with 12mm F11 or even Insta360 120 fps 4K 24 hours, 7 days per week to 'crop' afterwards;-]
So, ability to choose a proper contrast and tonal range is a matter of professional attitude, like working fixed-focal, manual focus, slow-aperture hand-held in time of super-duper AF, 120 fps, super-zoom...
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