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Those who actually think that others that use Photoshop in their creation of photos are naturally sloppier in their shooting the photo are unfair in their thinking towards those who do use post processing software (need not be Photoshop, though that's the one that works best - to my mind). When you have decided that post processing software helps you gaining more control over the production of a photo, it does NOT mean you can start out by taking a BAD photo, thinking you'll "make it better later". You cannot make a bad photo any better later. But you can gain control over making a GOOD photo more "your photo". To my mind, that is all there is!
Unless you can call a colour darkroom your own, few of us film users (I am both, film and digital) have to rely on handing in the film and getting back our prints, and we gave control over the making of the prints into the hand of the big machine in the lab that is set by default to a "one version for all" way of developing. The middle way. Always. But (!) that is a kind of post processing, too. Even the creation of the negatives already is a kind of post processing. Only is that totally out of my control. A machine takes the decisions (or not, but someone has ONCE set that machine!).
When my uncle and dad still made their own black and white prints in their darkroom, I watched them straighten tilted horizons by putting the paper no quite at a 90-degree angle onto the plate, I watched them crop their negative by moving the enlarger further away from the paper, I watched them dodge or burn, I watched them choose their paper according to what they wanted to achieve, I watched them decide on the time the print would stay in the developer and and and.
Why rob us of the chance to be equally creative today, in our computer darkrooms?
Unless you can call a colour darkroom your own, few of us film users (I am both, film and digital) have to rely on handing in the film and getting back our prints, and we gave control over the making of the prints into the hand of the big machine in the lab that is set by default to a "one version for all" way of developing. The middle way. Always. But (!) that is a kind of post processing, too. Even the creation of the negatives already is a kind of post processing. Only is that totally out of my control. A machine takes the decisions (or not, but someone has ONCE set that machine!).
When my uncle and dad still made their own black and white prints in their darkroom, I watched them straighten tilted horizons by putting the paper no quite at a 90-degree angle onto the plate, I watched them crop their negative by moving the enlarger further away from the paper, I watched them dodge or burn, I watched them choose their paper according to what they wanted to achieve, I watched them decide on the time the print would stay in the developer and and and.
Why rob us of the chance to be equally creative today, in our computer darkrooms?