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Originally Posted by DonovanPhillips
Part of being a good, pro photographer is knowlege of how to use photoshop to your advantage.
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Donnie - I need to correct you on something. Being a "pro photographer" has nothing to do with knowledge of photoshop or knowledge of the darkroom. It has to do with making great imagery that people pay you for - nothing less...nothing more. I've been shooting for 15 years and over those years I've taken numerous workshops and seminars from Photographers who knew nothing about the darkroom or Photoshop. But, their imagery was still beautiful and they had clients lining up to pay them for their vision.
J. Stephen Hicks for example....knows nothing about a darkroom. He's been shooting for Penthouse for 20 something/odd years. He shoots slides, sends them to the lab for processing and then sends them directly to Penthouse. He doesn't take them into the darkroom or into photoshop. I've seen his slides - straight out of the camera with no photoshop work done to them and all I can say is this......his work "straight out of the camera" kicks MAJOR ASS!
Photoshop is nothing more than a tool - just like a lens filter, just like a light meter, just like an umbrella, just like a compact card flash reader. Knowledge of Photoshop or the darkroom has nothing to do with how good of a photographer you are. On the internet and in the adult industry - there are so many photographers (or wanna be photographers) who use Photoshop to correct the skills that they havent yet mastered when the shots were actually produced. And some photogs only use it only to "enhance" their vision to produce a final product that would have been impossible to produce only with the camera. However people decide to use photoshop - it's up to them. But being good with photoshop does not necessarily mean your a good photographer and there are plenty of good photographers who know nothing about photoshop
