Seeing digital …
July 7th, 2011
Has anyone else noticed how a working familiarity with digital imagery or digitised sound begins to influence the way one interprets the world?
I sometimes find myself envisaging ‘histograms’ when analysing a scene with the naked eye, perhaps subconsciously evaluating the relative importance of detail in the shadows or the contribution of individual colours within a particular composition of a landscape. Seemingly uniform skies that disguise subtle gradients of tone immediately conjure up thoughts of large file sizes or the compression artefacts that frequently plague overly compressed (yet supposedly high definition) satellite movies – one good reason to capture RAW images instead of or as well as the ubiquitous JPEG when shooting landscapes.
