Good Morning, Wayne!


When I first got into photography as a hobby not too many months ago I pretty much felt the same as you do. It took me awhile to accept that post-processing in Photoshop was indeed a strong part of photography (especially since I suck at it)! I was disheartened by this realization. You would think that with acouple thousand spent on a camera and lens, post-processing wouldn't even be needed!But as in many fields today, computers have changed EVERYTHING, whether it be for the good or not so good of all hobbies and careers. I can come up with a hundred examples where it has effected how we reach a final product today.

Many, many years ago my dad would go out fishing all day and maybe not get a bite ...then came along his new son-in-law w/ his fish locating scanner and showed him where the schools of fish were when they'd go out on the boat. Took him awhile to accept this as truly fishing!


I work for a Civil Engineering and Survey firm and today land development is done alot differently with the help of advanced scanners, CAD and Civil 3D computer programs than they were when our bosses first started out in the field.

The art of photography isn't dead, it has just changed ...as everything has!

Denise