Chapter   8

 

Traditional and Non-Traditional Tools for Digital Methods

I love it when a plan comes together!

One of the most interesting promotional items created for my book “The Photographer’s Digital Studio” was a cartoon drawn by the brilliant artist John Grimes which showed trays of developer, stop, fix, and wash, with floppy disks being dipped in and out of each one. The caption was “A common mistake in digital photography.”

Years ago I labored many hours in a wet darkroom to produce a composite image showing what an historic statue would look like when moved to a different location. Digital imaging software would have let me do a better job in less than an hour and I wouldn’t have to spend time working in the dark with smelly chemicals. ...

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