Now that we are speaking about "looking away" and "do's & don'ts". Lets get ethical: Should photographers make a declaration when having manipulated (i mean: worked hard in photoshop) a picture?
Examples: - adding grain digitally ;-) - putting objects in or taking them out of a picture - changing colours (with digital colour filters) - cutting pimpels out of faces Does it make a difference if the photos are for - newspapers - magazines - a photo exhibition? What do you think? Michael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Juan Buhler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 24. Januar 2005 08:57 An: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Betreff: Digital grain and dogmatism I'm a bit amused at the big argument around adding grain to digital images. It seems like in no time, several people jumped to say that it is a silly thing to do, ridiculous, or that it "shouldn't" be done. Also, "if you want the look of film, shoot film." Well, NO. There is no "should." Maybe I want something that looks like film in certain ways but has the convenience of digital. Maybe I like to shoot Tri X and then try to minimize the grain with Neat Image, and then shoot with the ist D and add grain in Photoshop. Nobody is about to tell anybody else what to do--the most we can do is look away. Godfrey put it well when he used the phrase "whatever rocks your boat." It is art, and if the rules were so well defined then I'd be doing something else. j -- Juan Buhler http://www.jbuhler.com blog at http://www.jbuhler.com/blog
