Comments on: Straight Out of the Camera http://www.digitalrelish.net/263/straight-out-of-the-camera/ Liverpool Photographer who photographs faces and spaces. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:21:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Colin http://www.digitalrelish.net/263/straight-out-of-the-camera/comment-page-1/#comment-541 Colin Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:16:53 +0000 http://www.digitalrelish.net/?p=263#comment-541 Not wrong at all. Anyone that thinks a camera is going to get all the decision right is is misguided soul. A photograph should be something that is as pleasing to the eye as possible (not counting photojournalism here as that should represent reality too!). So when you leave many the decisions to a machine (the camera), what are the chances that it will get it spot on. Image sensors are also so limited in their dynamic range, that you need some post processing even if you only want to represent what your eyes saw at the time. And don't get me started on comments like "when I shot with film, there was no processing on the image". Of course there was ... most places that do processing have the minilab set to adjust each image by default. So I agree 100% with you. Colin Not wrong at all. Anyone that thinks a camera is going to get all the decision right is is misguided soul. A photograph should be something that is as pleasing to the eye as possible (not counting photojournalism here as that should represent reality too!). So when you leave many the decisions to a machine (the camera), what are the chances that it will get it spot on.

Image sensors are also so limited in their dynamic range, that you need some post processing even if you only want to represent what your eyes saw at the time.

And don’t get me started on comments like “when I shot with film, there was no processing on the image”. Of course there was … most places that do processing have the minilab set to adjust each image by default.

So I agree 100% with you.

Colin

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