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Originally Posted by Julian Thompson
The mood comes later in PP.
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Sad, actually.
Mood should instead underlie the inspiration to take a shot a priori.
This sentiment suggests that digital photography will divulge (has divulged) into the realm of the clinical. Will the art of photography shun the thrill of the shot - where the mood of the moment motivates the photographer to shoot - in favor of a mechanistic approach, where one seeks to rescue a mood from an arbitrary shot? Where's the art?
I LOVE my M8, it has taught me so much about photography, seeing the world, and image processing. Yet, now I think I will acquire an analog M, especially in light of this post. If I have to choose when to expose one of only 36 frames on a roll of film in a camera, then I will have to think (or feel) ahead of time when is the right time to use that shot. That will happen when the mood strikes me (and when I can think quickly enough to select the exposure/aperture/focus for the shot).