What's wrong with letting an app help take multiple exposures and increase the dynamic range (without making it too contrived), depth of field and exposure time? You'd still need to compose and find interesting subjects, no?That looks awful. It appears to set out to remove all the creativity, thought and reflection that goes, or should go, into taking a photograph, and handing the entire responsibility to an app. One named after a football team, ffs. No.
What's wrong with letting an app help take multiple exposures and increase the dynamic range (without making it too contrived), depth of field and exposure time? You'd still need to compose and find interesting subjects, no?
It's like driving a car with adaptive suspension, torque vectoring and dynamic steering to make the driving experience a bit more rewarding, but you still need to know which pedal to prod (and when) and which direction to point the car.
You're finding satisfaction with the means, and that's absolutely fine. Others might prefer an easier path to the end, and derive satisfaction in having captured a great image. I know DIY post-processing will give you far more creative freedom, but surely this is an equally valid halfway house between that and JPEGs.Sorry James, I don't buy it. It would render the taking of the photo of your beautifully found and composed image a mind-numbingly dull experience. Digital cameras are effective enough at doing that already. Film isn't becoming attractive to people, including young people, merely because it is actually better. It is because taking the pictures is a more rewarding experience.
I don't understand why anyone who is in any way serious about photography would shoot jpeg and not RAW. It's like listening to MP3s .....
Well, I don't know. IMO it is different, is all. Personally, while I loved making slides, and enjoy seeing really good pictures made on film, I have no intention of returning to it. Digital offers me more. I do understand the appeal of old tech to newcomers as a novel and rewarding experience, and I get excited over fresh ways of seeing with old ways of making. There's been a resurgence of interest in making tintypes for example and I'd try it myself if circumstances permit.Film isn't becoming attractive to people, including young people, merely because it is actually better. It is biecause taking the pictures is a more rewarding experience.
Better a dirty old jpeg of a compelling subject and moment than a technically excellent picture made from raw that's interesting only for its technical excellence. I see quite a bit of that around the internet!