to trabant and makiak....

I worked professionally for a number of years using very traditional techniques and materials.I learnt the CRAFT of photography,using 5x4 and 10x8 technical cameras and traditional darkroom processes.Back then,pre-digital,I was very much of the F64 Group mindset.Have you heard of them? Traditional film is the closest you can get photographically to a pure recording of light.Therefore,those images should never have artificial retouching,only negative spotting if required.

Digital photography and traditional photography are two very different things.In fact,I dont even consider a digital image as a photograph at all,except for the way it is aquired.It is a FILE.It is an INTERPRETATION of light.It is generated by a processor.It is not a pure recording of light.Therefore,any further manipulation I do to it in photoshop,is valid because that 'image' is already an interpretation to begin with.If you see 'lines' or whatever from my post work,so what? I see digital images as 'throw-away',which means that I don't look at every single detail.I do them very quickly,perhaps 30 or 40 images in a session.They are meant to be viewed as slideshows,not hanging on my wall.

I do not seek approval from anyone.I only post here to use up my free space on the Magix server.After 20 years as a professional photographer,and even photographing royalty,I have nothing to prove.I therefore care nothing for silly star ratings or whether I've left enough 'space' at the top of a picture.:-)