WLR
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Jun 28, 2005, 8:36 PM
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Re: [Brackish] Photographer told me digital is more work than film!
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Well from my point of view from working with a studio that did everything from develop the negs to the final 16x20 and framing and now working with a 20D................the big thing is that everything you did with chemicals, is now being done on a computer. It took time to mix the chemicals, time to make the test prints for the proofs, and then make the proofs. Then make the enlargements. Oh, then there was mounting the print to foamcore then the framing.........and you HAD to do that right the first time.
Digital.........hmmmm. Download the chip to the hard drive, do your color corrections, contrast adjustments, and croping on a calibrated crt screen. LCD laptops wont calibrate well at all. Burn the whole thing on a cd and deliver to the customer, let them make the prints or send out the cd for professional printing. Editing time for a graduation party was about 4 1/2 hrs with interruptions and screwups. There was aproximately 120 images.
Never start editing from the chip. The ENTIRE contents goes to the hard drive first. Dont do this when your are tired, sleepy, impared, whatever..........When you delete something from the chip it doesnt go into the recycle bin. You get to use instead, your copy of Sandisk recovery software and sweat bullets.
Save a folder of all the original stuff along with a folder of the final edit.
I LIKE doing the final editing. You get to do that final tweaking of the way you want it to be. You become the artist. You see it instantly. It's just like the darkroom but without the chemical odors and spent paper.
And I can look out the window at the same time.
WLR
Friends don't let friends shoot jpeg.
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Re: [Brackish] Photographer told me digital is more work than film!
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