ajsellaroli

I just wanted to add that Lightroom runs extremely fast on my system. I thought this was important to say because I've been reading alot of comments about how slow it is, but I only have relatively modern computer equipment and it flies for me. I've got a core 2 duo e2180 @2.0ghz processor, a seagate barracuda hd, and 4gigs of ram. That processor is by no means high end, and neither is the seagate. Maybe its the ram, I don't know, but everything is almost instantaneous for me.

Lightroom absolutely flies on my system. I don't even have that great a processor (its a C2D e2180), but I think the 4gigs of ram definitely help things.

Very interesting ideas, I guess you guys have a point, art will still be art. I just felt that it would make action photos seem less special. Where photographers of the past had to capture just the right moment, here, you are almost sure to get it.

 

I guess it won't really affect the art of photography other than in the arena of action photography - I can't imagine professionals with 'normal' dslrs coming out of an F1 car race with nearly as great photos as another professional with the RED would have.

 

The categories that will most likely remain unnaffected are probably..everything else. Landscapes, portraiture, etc still would require an artistic eye.

I suppose many of you have heard of the Red One camera. It is capable of

taking 12 megapixel photos at a rate of 60 fps. Though it is meant as a high-

definition movie camera, it has disconcerting implications for still

photographers.

 

What will happen to photography when a photographer can take high-quality

stills at this speed? This is far worse than those with current dslrs that

shoot 10-15 fps. The whole idea of "capturing the moment" will be completely

wiped out, as the people with the best shots will be the people with the best

equipment.

 

Images such as this one will no longer be considered exceptional

http://www.photo.net/photo/2971040

 

Imagine, just going back home and sifting through thousands of high quality

images - you would most likely get the proper exposure every single time. I'm

sure that you could even modify it to shoot a photo at every single exposure

level every second or so.

 

So, what do you think? How will this camera, and others coming, change

photography?

 

 

 

 

 

Link to the Red One Camera:

 

http://www.red.com/cameras

I'm reading through a book entitled "Seizing the Light, A History of

Photography," and it is bringing up alot of questions. I am starting to wonder

what the purpose of photography is. When it first started out, it was used

almost exclusively as a way to visually record information. People's portraits,

some landscapes, etc. Most people saw the photographer only as an extension of

his equipment, not as the artist. They figured he just worked the equipment,

but all that was really going on was things were being recorded.

 

This sort of thinking is causing me to reconsider where I stand on Photography.

I have only been taking pictures for 2 years, and I haven't really known why I

was taking pictures. I just thought I should try to 'record' beautiful things.

Now, I'm feeling like I want to make it an Art. However, to make it an art, I

feel I need to have some more interaction with it. Should I be working on my

images after I take them? Using photoshop to bring out emotions, etc I want to?

Or is it all in the composition..?

 

Basically, I'm searching for my purpose for taking pictures. Do I always have

to have an agenda? Many people today seem to, with those sort of depressing,

smoker, emo, etc pictures. But what I want to know is, How should the nature

photographer feel? What is his purpose for taking pictures? Is it just to show

others how cool some particular landscape was that I saw? or, is it to show him

how well I could capture the essence of a particular landscape I saw? To

paraphrase: Is photography concentrating on the skill of the photographer, or

the beauty of the subject??

 

If it is concentrating on the skill of the photographer, I would like to know to

what extent I have control over my image? can I alter its colors in Photoshop?

Can I take out a bird I don't want? Can I create a mood that wouldn't have been

there had I not photoshopped?

 

All these questions are weighing heavily on my mind, I would be extremely

grateful for any discussion that could shed light on my ideas, or give me the

answer to at least some of the questions I've asked.

 

Thank you

I've taken many thousands of images, but until now, I have never had the desire

to really make them better. Suddenly, I do. My photos are mainly landscapes of

nature, and so now, what I would really like more than anything is to find out

how to make sunsets more vibrant. I look at many pictures on photo.net, and

they have such a finished look to them, they look like true works of art. I'm

realizing that true art does not have to consist of only 'natural' images

straight from the camera (as my dad profoundly states), because it is the final

product that counts, and if post-processing can improve upon that, then why not?

 

But anyway, basically, i have CS2, but I don't even know where to start. What

tools? What book should I read? Maybe you can give me some examples?

 

Thanks in advance, AJ

Many of you may have noticed, but many of the photos here on photo.net are very

distinctive.

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/2211467

http://www.photo.net/photo/5493804

http://www.photo.net/photo/5499754

http://www.photo.net/photo/5502006

 

I have provided some examples, though I am sure most know what I am getting at.

Granted, these photos are beautiful, and I love looking through them, but they

are also a source of frustration to me, because in the two years I've been in

photography, no photo of mine has ever looked like this straight from the

camera. I've played around with photoshop a little, but it never seems to

amount to anything as extravagant as many of your works.

 

Please, if you can, help me; I'd love more than anything right now to here tips,

tutorials you've come across, personal experience.. Anything like this from you,

the members of photo.net, that you have found helps with photo enhancement.

I've tried many times to figure it out on my own, to no avail. Anything you can

offer would be of great value to me.

 

Thank you, Victor AJ Sellarole