how exactly has digital photography changed the profession.?

Question

and how does it compare to traditional 35mm film (as far as capabilities and qualitiy).

Answer 1

It is one of never ending topic, just like classical music and pop, they will keep head to head.

Since with digital camera anyone can "Take" a picture. If you can press a button and there you go, you are a photographer, simple.

This easy approach of taking pictures is giving really hard time to professionals and those who are very serious into photography career. The market is getting tight, competition is rough and dirty.

Then among professionals and serious photographers, it is tight competition as well, not dirty one but the creative one. Experimenting is easier and the much one photographer will command over new digital toys the more one can get higher marks.

Before digital studios you have to be an artist to bring out the deepest wild imaginations, now it is not that much important any more again thanks to digitals. Using various tools to create outstanding images and addition of self-created realistic items or places or environment or objects can take a simple photograph to an amazing fantasy image. Imagination is a limit and control of the tools.

And what more..

Answer 2

The actual taking of the picture hasn't changed, just the way it has been recorded. The technical aspect of photography remains, composition, exposure (which is actually more difficult with digital as there is no 'latitude' as there was with film), depth of field, 'seeing', the Art of photography etc. still need to be mastered. If people want to play an instrument they expect to spend hours mastering it, learning tonality, colour, scales etc., but they expect to buy a digital camera and be a David Bailey, it's not so I'm afraid. The Ansell Adams quote of "1/125th of a second to take the picture and twenty years to know exactly what going to happen when I press the button" still applies. Where the real change has come is in the processing of the picture as it now can be done in real time without having to wait for developing, fixing etc., but even there the GIGO principle is in operation (garbage in, garbage out) still applies, probably even more so. Chris

Answer 3

Digital photography is a method of making images without the use of conventional photographic film. Instead, a machine called a scanner records visual information and converts it into a code of ones and zeroes that a computer can read. Photographs in digital form can be manipulated by means of various computer programs. Digital photography was widely used in advertising and graphic design in the late 1990s, and was quickly replacing conventional photographic technology in areas such as photojournalism.

Digital cameras are now available for both professional photographers and amateur enthusiasts. The more expensive professional cameras function as sophisticated 35-millimeter cameras but record the picture information as pixels, or digital dots of color. There can be several million pixels in a high-resolution, full-color digital photograph. Some digital cameras are able to transfer their large picture files directly into a computer for storage. Others accept a disc or similar portable storage unit to achieve the same purpose. The original high-resolution image can later be reproduced in ink (in a magazine, for example) or as a conventional silver halide print.

Digital cameras aimed at the amateur photography market function much as point-and-shoot cameras do, with automatic focus, automatic exposure, and built-in electronic flash. Pictures from these cameras contain fewer pixels than those from a more expensive camera and are therefore not as sharp. After taking pictures, the user can connect the camera directly to a television set or video cassette recorder, so the whole family can look at snapshots together. Alternatively, image files can be transferred to a home computer, stored on disks, or sent to friends via electronic mail.

Answer 4

Digital photography has changed the profession completely because anyone can be a professional now. It is very easy to use and to manipulate digital pictures. As to how it compares to 35mm film the only difference between it and digital photography is the cost.

Answer 5

Digital photography has reduced the costs for pro-photographers. Color correction, development costs, and labour costs are significantly reduced. Tools like PhotoShop and FotoFusion can give instant results to clients. Since printing technologies have developed as well (no pun intended) there are more options available to pros than ever before.

Answer 6

When a professional photographer shoots pictures, he/she doesn't have to worry about processing film or make contact sheets to chose the best photo. They can put it on the computer and chose the photos easier.

Answer 7

FIRST . IT CAN BE VIEWED AS SOON AS YOU TAKE THE PICTURE . SECOND, YOU CAN CROP THE PICTURE TO YOUR LIKING. THIRD, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE PICTURES INTO THE COMPUTER AND LEAVE THEM UNTIL YOU NEED THEM . FORTH AND BEST OF ALL AFTER YOU DOWNLOAD YOU THEN DELETE THE PICTURES AND START ALL OVER. NO FILM TO BUY .