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<blockquote data-quote="Joseph Bautsch" data-source="post: 2326" data-attributes="member: 654"><p>fotojack - I agree that we need to do something to "level the playing field". I personally consider myself a photographer not a graphic artist. I do not own or use Photoshop. For what I want to accomplish with my photographs, it's way to expensive and way to complicated for my simple mind to comprehend. I shoot everything in RAW. BTW I use Aperture 3 for my photo management and post processing. The only other program I use is an Aperture HDR plug-in. </p><p></p><p>What a camera sees is usually very different from what the mind's eye will see. Why do you take a picture? Perhaps you see a wonderful shot with outstanding color, contrast, shadows and highlights making up these wonderful forms, shapes and angles. So, click, you take the picture. You get home, down load the picture and yuck that's not what I saw. Next thought is, do I dump it or not. True that is not always the case every now and then the camera will capture a shot close to what you wanted. But how many hundreds of shots do you take for the few that are worth keeping or for that matter worth submitting to a photo contest. </p><p>By having "totally untouched photos...straight out of the camera" are we just eliminating a really big part of an individuals artistic expression? Are we reduced to judging camera capability? When I take a picture I want the final result to be what I saw in my mind and not what the camera saw. </p><p></p><p>Maybe a better way to "level" the playing field would be to have a point-and-shoot camera category. Most point-and-shoot camera enthusiasts don't have sophisticated post processing programs. They can and do take photos that are worthy of competition but can't really compete with DSLR photos that have been post processed. Also to help level the playing field I suggest a "Photo Art" category. That would be for those digital pictures that have been "photoshopped" to the extent they are more works of art rather than a photo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joseph Bautsch, post: 2326, member: 654"] fotojack - I agree that we need to do something to "level the playing field". I personally consider myself a photographer not a graphic artist. I do not own or use Photoshop. For what I want to accomplish with my photographs, it's way to expensive and way to complicated for my simple mind to comprehend. I shoot everything in RAW. BTW I use Aperture 3 for my photo management and post processing. The only other program I use is an Aperture HDR plug-in. What a camera sees is usually very different from what the mind's eye will see. Why do you take a picture? Perhaps you see a wonderful shot with outstanding color, contrast, shadows and highlights making up these wonderful forms, shapes and angles. So, click, you take the picture. You get home, down load the picture and yuck that's not what I saw. Next thought is, do I dump it or not. True that is not always the case every now and then the camera will capture a shot close to what you wanted. But how many hundreds of shots do you take for the few that are worth keeping or for that matter worth submitting to a photo contest. By having "totally untouched photos...straight out of the camera" are we just eliminating a really big part of an individuals artistic expression? Are we reduced to judging camera capability? When I take a picture I want the final result to be what I saw in my mind and not what the camera saw. Maybe a better way to "level" the playing field would be to have a point-and-shoot camera category. Most point-and-shoot camera enthusiasts don't have sophisticated post processing programs. They can and do take photos that are worthy of competition but can't really compete with DSLR photos that have been post processed. Also to help level the playing field I suggest a "Photo Art" category. That would be for those digital pictures that have been "photoshopped" to the extent they are more works of art rather than a photo. [/QUOTE]
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