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It's the same, just that I skip the camera.The photograph is made not by the camera but the eye behind it.
I learn a lot from the old 35mm camera era, back then you don't have a lot of tools to fool the eyes, so you use visual trick a lot to do that for you, but nowadays technology reign the entire business, and basically you can do what I just did with just one click and one setting.
But visual trick is always visual trick, and I just think that nothing can fool me better than my own eyes
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It's the same, just that I skip the camera.
I learn a lot from the old 35mm camera era, back then you don't have a lot of tools to fool the eyes, so you use visual trick a lot to do that for you, but nowadays technology reign the entire business, and basically you can do what I just did with just one click and one setting.
But visual trick is always visual trick, and I just think that nothing can fool me better than my own eyes
I guess the term now that applies is Computational Photography. Even the phones everybody uses do a lot of internal processing for the images produced.
Yeah, if my mentor is still alive, he probably would be dying of heart attack when he sees an iPhone 15.
Many photographers nowadays don't really know how to get behind the science of photography, I mean now everyone have a good enough mobile phone with a good enough camera can call themselves "photographer" but then most of them wouldn't know the science behind a good photograph. Simply because the camera is doing all the work for them.
Me? I enjoy taking photo because of that process, sure, once in a while I was hired to do a job but it's just fun to set everything up myself, looking at your gear you probably are the same.
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I dabble in both, from an iPhone to a full frame with a f1.2 manual focus 50mm. I find the convenience useful and the creativity enjoyable from one extreme to the other.
I would like to set up a darkroom too but too many things prevent me from having the time to indulge in that pursuit.
lol, aren't we all? I mean I too have an iPhone ready to go for a quick snap, I am not going to pull out my DSLR when I see a dog doing funny thing in the street, by the time I messed with the lenses and the setting, it would have already gone.
Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate the technology today, but then I do value technique more, it's like people who like old car, but at the same time they can appreciate the modern engineering.
I have been to a darkroom once or twice and never developed my own negative in a dark room before, well, I am old school, not that old school....
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