[Jewelry making - Article 00077] - Re: [Orchid] Photographing Jewelry 101

[John Donivan]

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>     As to the issue or non-issue of digital photo manipulation, a
>     little food for thought. 

    I'm no great photographer, but I know plenty about it in a "look
    over their shoulder" sense - this is Ansel Adams territory, among
    others...... Anybody who thinks that traditional professional
    photography EVER came straight off the camera is simply naive. It
    has never been considered cheating or inappropriate - it is, and has
    always been, a part of "the photographic process." Ansel Adams
    didn't capture that radiant light with the deep shadows through the
    lens, he created it (or enhanced it) in the darkroom - dodging the
    highs, burning the lows, tinkering with everything like a painter
    with a painting till it was just so. Graphics software has made it
    easier for anyone, and made it really easy to do compositing and
    such, but it's really just what photography people have always been
    doing, just a different toolbox. It is true that there was one very
    famous photgrapher here locally (who's name escapes me - his book is
    at home) who prided himself on no-photoshopping, but that's more like
    a jeweler who prides themselves on no-casting or something - the
    exception, not the rule. 

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