I, for one, am all for a backlash against over re-touching photographs of all genres.
Although, having governments creating laws does make me uneasy. I do think it should be the photographic community as a whole that decides how we labels our photographs.
I do think we will start to see a strong return to traditional photographic techniques. We will be using re-touching to enhance our photographs; not fixing the mistakes made on set.
I agree with you in principle Aaron. But clients are demanding things on-set that are not possible in the time a photographer has to shoot them. For example, just yesterday I was shooting an airplane interior and exterior. In 7 hours, the client wanted 12 different shots. That is, 12 styled and composed and lit shots that looked like professional architectural photography. I suspect this is happening on jobs across all genres in the medium. The assumption is that photographers can now work very quickly and just fix everything later.
Ummm…. retouching isn’t something that’s new. Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Steichen, and many more “old school” greats had their images retouched before photoshop even existed. Before computers even existed, people were retouching glass plate negatives. Retouchers would spend days hand painting actual negatives by removing blemishes, correcting lighting, and even compositing backgrounds.
Ok.
There is no problem with retouching however there is problem with society. And it is just happens the smart people is minority this days.
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I, for one, am all for a backlash against over re-touching photographs of all genres.
Although, having governments creating laws does make me uneasy. I do think it should be the photographic community as a whole that decides how we labels our photographs.
I do think we will start to see a strong return to traditional photographic techniques. We will be using re-touching to enhance our photographs; not fixing the mistakes made on set.
I agree with you in principle Aaron. But clients are demanding things on-set that are not possible in the time a photographer has to shoot them. For example, just yesterday I was shooting an airplane interior and exterior. In 7 hours, the client wanted 12 different shots. That is, 12 styled and composed and lit shots that looked like professional architectural photography. I suspect this is happening on jobs across all genres in the medium. The assumption is that photographers can now work very quickly and just fix everything later.
Ummm…. retouching isn’t something that’s new. Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Steichen, and many more “old school” greats had their images retouched before photoshop even existed. Before computers even existed, people were retouching glass plate negatives. Retouchers would spend days hand painting actual negatives by removing blemishes, correcting lighting, and even compositing backgrounds.