Digital developing

Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 11:28 PM | Posted by Gizmore
A lot of purist 'condemn' the use of Photoshop or whatever form of digital manipulation on images. Most of the time, these purist have failed to realize that back in the film days, the same kind of manipulations have been in practice. The final photo usually has a certain degree of post processing (through chemical reaction) during developing.

Times have changed and therefore, the way photos are process goes from analog to digital as well.

Digital processing is the same as developing negatives (analog). In fact, a lot of tools in photoshop or any image processing software derive from the olden ways of developing photos. Therefore, it is quite unfair to call post processed pictures a 'artifical'. Unless of course, objects are explicitly added or a scene is articially constructed via digital means.

Below is a shot which has been heavily post-processed in Photoshop.

IMG_3672
Foggy sunset from Taipei 101.
ISO100; 1/100s; f7.1

Selective Level adjustment is done to the lower part of the picture to recover the details of the buildings. After which the picture is converted to black and white using the Gorman method with a slight yellow tint as overlay layer. The end result - a rather spectacular shot of the sunset viewed from Taipei 101 observatory tower. :)

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