Hot mid summer day looking up at the Telecom Tower with the giant baby statues caught in a sun flare...
I know what you mean and used to think that way. I love the work of Ansel Adams all time favorite, he came up with the zone system and used a large format plate camera I believe. He never took more than one shot of one scene, no bracketing if you can't nail it in one you don't know what you're doing and of course he was right. On the other hand age has mellowed me and my attitude now is if the tools are available why deny yourself the opportunity of turning what (I'm taking about me here nobody else) are mediocre images into if not stonking ones at least visually striking. My take now is photographers who moan about these tools (and I don't mean you @Exige) are living in the past. The tools are there use them or get left behind. I can imagine painters saying the same thing when photography was invented, but then painting morphed into different forms To me its like traction control, anti wheelie, anti lock brakes, you can choose to use them or not but the guys using them will be faster, given the same riding skill set. Anyway I've been here long enough don't want to hog the thread (Oh I do have some pretty good images from film days and then it was a one shot all or nothing affair)
Interesting point about the "cheating manipulation" I'm a keen underwater photographer as I have said and one of the things I was taught is that manipulation is only cheating if you don't admit to it. Certainly the earlier photographers manipulated pics in the darkroom.
this Pic sums up my 3 loves Diving, Photography and Motorcycles........oh and the wife is in it as well lol
Took this one a couple of years ago -Loch Lomond about 8 in the morning on my way home from a job. Italian Alps Jan 2009.
I have about 3 thousand more random snaps, most are naff...lol anyway.. why not start a "Random Photography" thread like there is on the Honda forum
I do enjoy getting the camera out. I must admit that I prefer to get the shot and rarely manipulate anything, and if I do it's only to crop. I don't think I'll ever be bothered to learn Photoshop, for what I need it's easier to learn the camera as I don't do arty stuff. I like to "test" the conditions to get those rare shots, e.g. there was so little light at Brands BSB that getting a decent shot was difficult, the opposite of Le Mans 24hrs when there was so much light that getting the fence focused out was difficult without going up too far in speed and freezing the motion, and then birds in the garden just being in the right place at the right time. All of the attached were taken this year on an old Canon EOS400D with cheap lenses and are as taken.
