digital photography .... simplifying the process?

Detail Leica camera negative

The beginning digital photography, it was assumed, a more accessible way of photography, but in my opinion, nothing has changed, only the name of the process. It is something that most fans have a hard time adjusting to the idea, that is, at first, it seems that simply using a digital camera and post processing program, we have the full kit digital photography. Nothing is further from reality, because in order to obtain copies of certain quality, we have to relearn the whole process involved.

When the photograph was analog, we needed to know the negative and the developer, depending on the utility and final intention of the image, Today we are obliged to know the color profile of both the camera and the profile of output space of the image. At the time of positivism, we should know what type of developers we used, the type of light from the enlarger and the paper, apart from the obvious change of process and nomenclature, we must continue to control as much or more variables that before. It is now necessary for a quality copy, have calibrated your monitor and printer, the latter difficult if we have to print out, because in some places they are called professionals, or even bother to calibrate the plotter.

Persona eliminada de

una fotografia soviética.

Nor is it a retrograde technique, and I think this is important because it is how the end came the idea to the viewer. I must also say that digital photography has certainly simplified certain processes, such as retouching, understanding this as the multiple composition, the elimination of elements in the image, or clearing skin blemishes. While this has provided a clear way, it is true that especially in the beginning of these types of software has come to abuse of such effects. Is this, what is making gradually lose the uniqueness of its photo, and that today is very common that a person sees an image and before considering what is real is raised which will be retouched and which no. In fact laws have been proposed in several states to limit the retouching of images in advertising. This makes me wonder where it tends toward the photographic image, if it were to lose that aura of reality that makes it unique and if you end the first theoretical reason and photography will again be an imitation of painting. Although the photographers, artists continue to explore the possibilities of reality, public opinion is increasingly further from this line.

Image ion litio belonging to the blog, in his article "El retoque fotográfico en la antigua Unión Soviética"

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