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June 12, 2009
This is my life, unfortunately. Long hours spent in front of the computer. Suzanne, my partner, thought the Leunig cartoon was so apt:
Leunig
It's not that bad. I do go to bed! I have also moved from being a casual photographer--- point-and-shoot who saw photography to be a window to the concrete world--- to a passionate enthusiast, shooting in RAW for easier editing, some times adding geotags for a richer experience, and sharing photos in an online gallery. Morever, the computer as a digital darkroom is much better and healthier than the chemical darkroom.
The definition of photographic truth during the 1930’s was dominated by the notion that a photograph was an automatic process that could neutrally act as a stand-in for the viewer. Today the idea that a photograph can be a neutral container of facts seems naïve. We have come to realize that photographic meaning can be determined by how a photographer chooses to integrate content and compositional structure and that truth is not solely dependent on a literal transcription of reality.
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I agree: life in a chemical darkroom was hazardous and horrid. I constantly marvel that digitally I can enact in ten seconds what would have taken me an hour in a darkroom.
I have done the reverse to you: I majored in Darkroom Photography at Art School. Having spent half my life engineering hand-coloured black and white photos, now I have jettisoned all my cameras except for my small underwater Olympus. I love Photoshop.
I have noted the current interest in the use of black and white, and the notion that Analogue imagery possess a kind of earnestness, or truthfulness, which digital images are known to sidestep. (or have the ability to, anyway)
Haven't been here in a while. (so busy) Always very interesting to browse here.
Your photos are excellent.
And I'm sure that Leunig represents half the population, including me!