--- William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So when you do these manipulations, is the intent to make things look > as real as possible, introducing no biases of your own?
That depends entirely upon the intent of the photographer for each photograph they might be inspired to create. Certainly a photograph made for purposes of documentation and historical record should be rendered as accurate to the original scene as possible, where a photograph used to illustrate or express an emotion has more aesthetic latitude in its rendering. This is no different from film-based work. > ... Or is there some aesthetic latitude given, perhaps analogous to > choosing a particular film becuase of a certain visual treatment that > it renders. ... Yes, it is precisely analogous to choosing a film and processing treatment to achieve a visual effect. The difference is that you can choose the rendering you want after you've made the exposure, allowing more flexibility to the process. To get back to my original statement, there is no "digital look". A photograph recorded with a digital camera looks as it ought to, as a capture of light without defects intrduced by the capture medium. Godfrey __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com