Digital vs. Traditional




What's the fuss all about?

O.K. I don't know about you but I'm getting tired of hearing this debate over and over. As a former pro photographer (and practicing photo teacher and artist) I've finally come up with my answer to this "competition" between digital and traditional: It makes no difference which you use as long as the end product says something (is it ART?) I have spent kajillions of hours shooting black and white film, color film, Polaroid film, small, medium and large format, and out of all of these hours and toils I still only have a fistfull of images that I'm truly proud of. Ditto with digital images - I've shot digitally, scanned scads of photos into Photoshop, manipulated, resized, composited, toned, copy, pasted, printed out and still get the same result. Only a few of these images are what I would consider "nearly awesome." In spite of all of the time I've spent with my favorite visual art over the last thirty five years or so, I will still look at a single image by Ansel Adams or Dorothea Lange and wish that I could create something that even comes close!

Posted: Wed - October 1, 2003 at 09:54 PM          

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