Originally posted by: destrekor
here's a question.. do you like the famous black and white photographs? like ansel adams?
like all the color photographs that are billed as art? they all have something in common: darkroom post-processing through use of filters, or maybe even filters on the lens of the camera itself. Dodging and burning are likely to have been used too. Film just cannot capture what our eye sees, so without aid, even photographs from professionals can lake the dynamic lifelike character the scene would have in person. This is why I prefer film for artwork purposes, due to the fact that foresight is typically required for the photograph to be capable of becoming art.,
A lot of the famous B&W pictures are too artsy for me. I already mentioned the problems with the dynamic range of the camera, so some correction is normal. It's only when the photographer knowingly doctors the photo beyond what is required to fix the photo do I become annoyed with it.
The pictures I take never employ the use of advanced postprocessing (I only crop/resize). I do not believe in altering the factuality of the scene. Some people see no problem with such fraud (such as taking a photo of a cabin with the Moon in the background and then enlarging the Moon and moving it closer to the cabin.)
I like my photos to accurately describe what it was like to be there.