ozziworld
Contributor
Post processing gets such a bad reputation.
In the film era, when a roll of film was manually printed it was printed according to the tastes of the one doing the printing. A little dodging here, a little burning there. If it did not require any of that. It would at least be a result of a test strip where the printer chooses the right exposure on the print and amount of time in the chemical phase.
When we brought our rolls of film to the drug store for prints, the high school kid operating the machine was the one judging if the prints were ''good enough'', assuming of course he bothered to even calibrate the machine to begin with. Custom hand prints then were always more expensive because a ''real'' photographer judged each print according to the image.
If one lets a machine control the output, that does not mean less post processing, all it means is we accept what the machine deems to be technically pleasing.
Manual transmission or automatic transmission.
In the film era, when a roll of film was manually printed it was printed according to the tastes of the one doing the printing. A little dodging here, a little burning there. If it did not require any of that. It would at least be a result of a test strip where the printer chooses the right exposure on the print and amount of time in the chemical phase.
When we brought our rolls of film to the drug store for prints, the high school kid operating the machine was the one judging if the prints were ''good enough'', assuming of course he bothered to even calibrate the machine to begin with. Custom hand prints then were always more expensive because a ''real'' photographer judged each print according to the image.
If one lets a machine control the output, that does not mean less post processing, all it means is we accept what the machine deems to be technically pleasing.
Manual transmission or automatic transmission.
