Re: RPP raw photo processor 64
Re: RPP raw photo processor 64
- Subject: Re: RPP raw photo processor 64
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:50:13 -0600
On Jun 1, 2013, at 2:40 PM, Andre Dumas <email@hidden> wrote:
> Isn't this *to some degree* part of the creative process (output-referred) and isn't it what Lightroom and Capture One do anyway, but maybe differently.
Yes, of course it is. You hit the idea perfectly.
This talk of 'accurate' color, scene referred capture etc is all good and fine for maybe 1% of photographers if we can even agree that this is a possible goal. Once we begin to talk about cameras and gamut, things get dicey!
The idea that ACR and Thomas Knoll have created anything different from the vast majority of raw processors which are built to mimic the tools and techniques photographers for years have used doesn't wash. Was neg film accurate? All those filter pack combo's used in the darkroom to produce a print that was what the photographer (or printer) desired is based on pleasing, desired color. Was Kodachrome more accurate to the scene than Agfachrome, Ekatacrome or Fujichrome? No. And we photographers selected transparency film (and the filters over the lens) specifically due to our preferences to how they rendered color.
For the few photographers that want to go down the accuracy rabbit hole, who might be attempting to use a camera system to make "exact copies" (if possible), go for it. The rest of us have a goal of creating imagery as we want to represent it to a viewer. That's part of the ART of Photography. For those who's use of photography is strictly scientific, either to reproduce or capture without bias, the conversation is useful. For the rest of us, it's a digression from making (or taking, there is a difference) a photograph.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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