RE: Miscellaneous photos - Mostly things beginning with the letter B
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If I ever do another dug from the archives post, I think every category that starts with a vowel will fit to the current letter I've picked. ...except perhaps another vowel... hmm... my perfect logical deduction seems to have a vowel sized hole in it.
Aaanyway, architecture just seems so much professional than building category.
Film images seem to die slower though
And there are fewer film photos than digital images so it's not such a chore to pick the ones that make it to be published. It's really easy to decide if there's at least one publishable photo in 8 or even 36 frame roll than a short trip to take the garbage out and accidentally take the digital camera with you and end up wit 8584 photos. And then there's the terrible hassle with the post processing if you ever manage to choose anything. "Do I want this sparrow shadow to be more bluish or should I go black and white and oo that abstract pigeon poo reflection in the window is totally worth a two hour post processing session!"
I hardly post process. I don't see the point. If I can't get it right in camera, why am I taking photos at all? Unless it's for artistic purposes (or something I absolutely can't get in camera) I tend to use the raw image.
That's what I've decided to do too, especially after I got my Sony. I do take raw images but also jpg and often the jpg image is so good that I just decide to use that. Perhaps just a little levels tuning and that's that. Raw image fine tuning if I have to dig out details but that's it nowadays. The goal is to learn to be good enough photographer so that time is saved as you don't have to post process that much.
Yes! A little tweaking of levels to bring out details is one thing, but I almost feel like some photographers overdo the post processing just so they feel like "artists". I have made my fair share of highly manipulated images, I don't consider them photography, I consider them digital art. Maybe I'm just being a semantic snob?
Exactly. Manipulating images and building a whole new world is a completely different thing which I do love but that truly isn't photography anymore. And I do appreciate good photography which is talent, effort and years of training. I don't think over tweaked or over saturated, every little detail enhanced photos are good photography. And that's not being a snob.