Does "digital" = "edited"

[bitteraspects]

Unless you shoot transparency film and view the transparencies directly, any photograph is the result of manipulation. The equivalent in the digital world would be to display camera RAW files on the computer monitor.

In the darkroom we make test strips to determine the ideal exposure for printing. We crop and burn and dodge and do all kinds of things to make the print look like we want it to look.

Photoshop and other similar programs are simply the modern day version of the darkroom. No difference at all. Nothing has changed except the technology. The final image is the sum of the photographer's work. It always has been.

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