A lot of people also "edit" 35mm. Dodging, burning, cropping, I would consider these all edits. A lot of people think that film photography is in essence more "truthful" than digital but film can be manipulated just the same.
I think it's pretty interesting to think about and question what "editing" really means, especially in photography.
I don't think digital photography is the devil or anything. But I think that the difference lies in the instance of digital photography...in being able to instantly view an image and react to it. I do think that film photography requires a lot of artistic skill to be able to imagine what the final product could be. Because there are more limitations I think it requires much more skill to produce a great film print than it does to produce a great digital print.
I'm really just bitter because in my heart of hearts what I really want to do is go to back to school and get a Master of Fine Arts and then I want travel the US and publish some awesome Bill Owens-esque book. But that really doesn't make sense. And then there are a million "pro photographers" who shoot mediocre family portraits that they edit the hell out of to make the eyes of a ten year old boy some unnatural blue color. Everyone thinks they're fantastic and have some amazing artistic talent and I'm like, "WTF?"
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I think it's pretty interesting to think about and question what "editing" really means, especially in photography.
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But I can see why digital is so popular, it takes a fraction of the time.
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