Digital_Versus_the_Darkroom

Digital Versus the Darkroom For decades photographers have spent hours hunching over enlargers making every possible aspect of their work into the perfect print. Burning, dodging, setting filters and using dozens of pieces of printing paper to show the world as they see it. As we prepared for the millennium, digital cameras made their way into the art of photography with no film to develop, and the ability to preview pictures instantly, right in the field. For years photographers have used Polaroid cameras to preview the picture before taking it on 35mm film, and now, with digital cameras, the photographer can delete unsatisfactory shots with the touch of a button. The biggest selling point of digital cameras is convenience. You can get a digital image quickly and conveniently, without the need to develop film. But there are photographers who see the dark room as where the “real magic happens.” Some photographers, like Mr. Farley of the HCCC photography program, feels that it “takes the romance out of photography.” Others feel it is less hands on. Rory Christensen, a Photography major put it this way, “There is just something magical about the dark room. It has a special feeling of creation that is simply not present with digital, photography, photographers, cameras, image, computer, film, , picture, over, way, simple, printing, pictures, much, making, less, just, darkroom, photography, work, versus, spent, simply, school, resolution, program, print, preview, possible, photographer, perfect, out, one, mr, major, hours, hccc, hands, feels, farley, every, editing, easier, develop, dark, create, convenience, commercial, better, become