I have just started a step in beginning a rebirth in photography. I had a lot of personal issues occur and stopped shooting after hitting a deep depression. My creativity had taken a turn bad....I had felt unoriginal and wanted to break every camera.
So I ended my film run with a Pentax -KX and it was a good camera to stop with. My first Digital SLR was a Canon Rebel back in 2k3.
I have not shot since that day and come back looking at photos online, everyone cheats....no one tries to use natural lighting....
Sure post processing is a cool concept, you can make the image be what you wanted it to be, but where is the skill? Where is the hunger for perfection anymore?
I have become a bit shocked as to how bad it really has become, anyone can go into photoshop and cheat now, it will be a dagger in the heart for photography as a skill.
Any idiot can go and use a Point and shoot and take a picture now, and go into photoshop and edit it, I think those of you who still use film will appreciate what I'm trying to argue here.
I want to relearn everything and use manual mode on the next digital I buy, which will most likely be a Pentax. I want to be as original as I can be, which will be difficult and I will never import images into photoshop to cheat with, I will take thousands of photos and pick the best ones. Sure it's going to the past, but it was more fun then....seeing a perfectly exposed and focused image was a joy in a darkroom. Now anyone can do it...
Last edited by thereturn; 12-07-2010 at 03:56 PM.
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