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What do you class as digital imaging?
If a photograph is recorded on a colour transparency or negative film and printed as a slide or onto photography paper this is known as a traditional print. If this same image is then scanned onto a PC to add it to this site, is it then classed as a digital image, even if nothing has been changed?
What are your thoughts on this?
Matt
What are your thoughts on this?
Matt
For once I have to disagree with Pete, if your view that Pixels equal a digital image then all pictures on the site are digital and this is clearly not the case, this change to Pixels is just a means to getting the image onto the site !
The way we see pictures on the site has no real bearing on how the image was originally captured. Yes I know people are interested in whether the pictures were captured on film or digitally and this is where more information is required and we have this with the detail of the camera/film section.
The way we see pictures on the site has no real bearing on how the image was originally captured. Yes I know people are interested in whether the pictures were captured on film or digitally and this is where more information is required and we have this with the detail of the camera/film section.
Brian, I have gigabytes of images stored on my PC but I do not consider myself to be a digital photographer and in fact do not yet own a digital camera.
Pictures have been scanned for years to produce a file for reproducion in magazines and the like but only with the advent of digital capture do photographers class themselves as having "gone digital"
The difference between the S1 Pro pic and the film one is the original medium used to capture the image, the scanner is only a tool to get the image onto the PC, yes the file is now digital, but the original image is still analogue.
Pictures have been scanned for years to produce a file for reproducion in magazines and the like but only with the advent of digital capture do photographers class themselves as having "gone digital"
The difference between the S1 Pro pic and the film one is the original medium used to capture the image, the scanner is only a tool to get the image onto the PC, yes the file is now digital, but the original image is still analogue.
In my view, if we are talking about digital photography we are talking about capture. A photo taking on film is traditional film based and a photo taken on a digital camera is digital. But once the photograph is in pixel form it's a digital image (ie constructed of pixels in simplest form 0s and 1s), whether taken from film, created from scratch on a PC or captured on a digital camera.
Pete, I think I almost agree with you, but I think Matts original query is asking a slightly different question (Matt?)in that I think he is asking whether an IMAGE changes to digital just because it is in a digital form and I do not think it does. The digital form is only a requirement to get it into an electronic medium i.e. the internet in this case, we are talking semantics here, yes technically it is digital because it is in a file format, but in reality it is not a digital image per say.
Of course the original comes into it - a series of 0's and 1's are of no interest to the eye are they, in the vain of Matts question the original image is all, a film original is only digitised to get it up here for all to see. We can only see a digital file (camera or scanner generated) after the 0's and 1's have been interpreted into an image on the screen.
Two old ladies perusing the pictures on display in an art shop window.
Pointing to a print one lady is overheard saying "That's only a photograph" and pointing to another print says "And that's a painting"
The 'photograph' was a fine print, titled and bore the descriptive text from a photograph by...... The 'painting' was a fine print and, you guessed, bore text stating a watercolour by ......
The two old ladies moved on muttering something about the English weather, both happy in their ignorance. One had glasses on the other did not. Little did they know the impact said comments would have on the photographer. To deceive or not to deceive that is the question. John Tindall.
Pointing to a print one lady is overheard saying "That's only a photograph" and pointing to another print says "And that's a painting"
The 'photograph' was a fine print, titled and bore the descriptive text from a photograph by...... The 'painting' was a fine print and, you guessed, bore text stating a watercolour by ......
The two old ladies moved on muttering something about the English weather, both happy in their ignorance. One had glasses on the other did not. Little did they know the impact said comments would have on the photographer. To deceive or not to deceive that is the question. John Tindall.
Thanks for all your responses. Bob is right about my original question, does an IMAGE changes to digital just because it is in a digital form.
My opinion is it is still a traditional print as it has not been altered, if I scan an image onto my PC and alter it to improve the overall picture then it would be a digital image.
My opinion is it is still a traditional print as it has not been altered, if I scan an image onto my PC and alter it to improve the overall picture then it would be a digital image.
No Matt, if you scan a traditional print into a computer, what you have is a traditional print AND a digital copy of the print. The digital copy IS a digital image. If I make a copy of an old LP onto a CD, it IS a digital music file, even though the original was on vinyl.
why does it matter,really?when you see something great published do you care if it was done on a traditional camera and if so on which format? or digital or whatever? if so I hope only in order to learn about the technique in order to improve your own work and not for "purist reasons"!
