Re: Taking, Making, Creating Images

[Jostein]

Well, that sounds like a statement true for everyone shooting negative 
film as well, if you substitute "computer" with "darkroom". The only 
difference is that more people today have access to computers than to 
darkrooms.

Jostein
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 5:24 PM
Subject: Taking, Making, Creating Images


The Luminous Landscape has an  article by Pete Myers on the value of
post-production editing for photographers:
"What I am suggesting is that the real power of photography in our 
modern
digital age is in using the computer in making an image... I really 
don't
care all that much about what the picture looks like that I took in 
the
field - I care about what I can make of the image in postproduction.
Certainly that does not excuse me from doing my best in taking a 
picture in
the field, but the point is what happens in the field is not an end 
all -
it's a beginning."

Any comments on this?
Shel