Originally posted by gatorguy You describe a documentary approach. We're not all simply documenting a scene. We often create one, in the field, in-studio, or on computer. We're part of the artist community, painting with light, and Ii's OK. We create, yet we're still photographers.
So let's stay on topic.
I
am on the subject of this thread!!
I state that a JPEG photographer should use exactly the controls that it was just stated that a “raw” photographer should touch.
The “raw” photographers are claiming that JPEG photographers are doing all kinds of adjusting in the field,
and THAT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE.
Perhaps “raw” photographers are more ‘artistic’ at heart; that is more believable, but
viewing JPEG photographers as people who adjust JPEG parameters in the field
as “raw” photographers do later - but at an earlier stage - misrepresents some of us.
Yes, I take a documentary approach to photography, but I am still a
photographer;
not all of us are painting a scene as we wished it looked - some of us paint it as it actually does look.
I am glad you posted your comment because it highlights what I’ve been saying all along.