I do find
the photography press a pain
when it comes to describing the difference between digital and traditionally
produced black and white pictures! They can no longer call a photograph a
photograph, it has to be a silver print or gelatin print, why? I think they
need to get over themselves as the English language describes both types quite
well without having to preface the word print. A photograph is a picture
produced using light and chemicals. A print is a picture produced using ink.
What could be simpler.Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Photograph or print
I do find
the photography press a pain
when it comes to describing the difference between digital and traditionally
produced black and white pictures! They can no longer call a photograph a
photograph, it has to be a silver print or gelatin print, why? I think they
need to get over themselves as the English language describes both types quite
well without having to preface the word print. A photograph is a picture
produced using light and chemicals. A print is a picture produced using ink.
What could be simpler.
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I totally disagree. A photograph is produced using light sensitive materials and chemicals and as if by magic we get the results in our trays. Digital images are produced with the aid of electronics and computers so they are rightly referred to as images. They are not photographs and as a photographer I fully support this. In fact you might check out what the various dictionaries classify the two different disciplines as
ReplyDeleteThis is what Wikipedia say about it
photography |fəˈtägrəfē|
noun
the art or practice of taking and processing photographs.
Modern photography is based on the property of silver compounds decomposing to metallic silver when exposed to light. The light-sensitive salts are held in an emulsion (in color film, layers of emulsion) usually mounted on transparent roll film.
Hi Kenneth, I completely agree with what you have written. which leaves me a little perplexed as to what you are disagreeing with. Do you mean you agree?
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