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Originally posted by Senna4ever
Great post, Justin. This is what I have been saying all along. I think one of the saddest things is the number of digi-dweebs that think if they learn photoshop, they don't have to learn photography. It's amazing to me how many people nowadays know nothing about Analog or traditional photography. Never developed film or printed in a darkroom. Many people who now photograph probably would never had gotten so into it if digital cameras were never invented. AND they dont care about what came before and think traditional photography is a waste of time.
Use film to learn photography - better yet, practise using slide film. I think, while you can learn photography without it, you can't really learn the science of photography without the discipline of film.
....having said (written) that:
Digital photography has also revitalized the hobby (the taking pictures part). I'm sure that they took some pictures before, but a lot of the people that are "serious" about it now have either started with digital, or have come back to photography because of it. It's much like light meters today. How many here could stop using one get get acceptable results? The real old timers (most of which have died out by now) wondered about those new photographers that had to have a meter. If you learn with it, it's tough to give up...
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It's funny... go into any pro-audio forum and you hear almost the exact same things about the advent of digital audio, especially in the last dozen years or so. People recording in their basements now, who have no idea about audio or techniques or laying down good tracks in the first place... just fix it all later in ProTools, chop chop. People making music who have no business making music because they didn't learn it the hard way...
And yet, more musicians, some of whom ARE worth hearing but may never had got the chance before, can now share their music because they don't NEED to go into an expensive studio to record a full pro-sounding album.
It was funny (and slightly distressing), when I was working at CDIS, we'd regularly get video students who didn't want to mess around with the analog decks and switches and learning how to do manual sync and transitions and such, all the old-school systems - they just wanted to grab the fancy DV cameras and start slicing stuff up in Premiere...