I heard it again yesterday for the billionth time: “Digital Photography”. Isn’t it time we drop the word ‘digital’?
Seems we’ve managed to drop the “electric” from “electric guitar” in common parlance.
We found it easy to drop the word “acrylic” from “acrylic painting” when that came on the scene with oils.
We quickly ditched the “digital” from “digital music” when it took the lead over records and tapes and CDs.
I suppose by-and-large our industry has dropped the word, but given that digital and analog photography are fundamentally the same thing, isn’t it time we implore the rest of the world to assimilate the term “digital photography” back into “photography” as a whole?
The medium is very important you can achive with digital and Photoshop many things you will never achieve with film in the Darkroom, So there is a big diference between getting your picture in you camera and getting the picture in your computer.
you need better skills to take a great picture with film. For me photogrphy is film, digital photography is sometimes closer to computer drawing or image design
Greg
That’s elitist.
I couldn’t agree more. Photography is an art, and the tools used to produce that art shouldn’t dictate how it is communicated.
Hi Chase,
I think I understand the point that you’re trying to make. Photography should just be photography and, regardless of the medium, the ultimate goal should be to create images. Nonetheless, there are differences between digital and film, especially when it comes to post processing. I don’t believe that putting digital in front of photography is problematic. Isn’t there a class on creative live called Fundamentals of Digital Photography? Obviously, there is a need to distinguish between both.
While I couldn’t agree more….good luck with that!
We haven’t been able to even BUY leaded gas since 1975. Yet every gasoline station I know of lists their gas as “unleaded” !?
Just to look back at a post from this blog last year
“Mulling it over, I couldn’t articulate it fully but definitely, I knew I had become lazy, really lazy. A spectacular sloth by the standards of shooting film. Film is hard. Film is a stone cold unforgiving killing bastard. Film is once in a lifetime, no excuses. F8 and really, really be there: ready, steady, in focus, correct exposure, and pressing the shutter in synch with life.”
there is a difference.
sure you can be one and the same, but the difference has to be recognized
and i wouldn’t change a word from that paragraph.
the point is that both are photography. sure when we dissect photography, we can talk about a hundred thin slices of it.
but it’s all photography, right?
should there be a book called composing for digital photography?
Trouble is in your original paragraph you made inaccurate comments about guitars and painting which makes it hard to see where you’re coming from re digital photography.
Still raining here…