An interesting thought, normally condemned on photography related websites.
Opened my email this morning and had an advertisement from the PPA to purchase a copy of portraitPro software.. was bored and followed the link to the company website.. What a waste, a real waste. They have a version of software for full body portraits that let you change the height, weight, and general build of a person. If you wanted to you could resize pee wee herman in a suite to be as big and solid as say Hugh Jackman in a suite.
The software also lets you change a persons facial expression as well. Thats odd, it also lets you change their facial structure as well to enhance that unibrow undoubtedly.
Digital editing has become the new "mandatory standard" if you watch all the youtube crap and pay attention to PPA advertisements.
We are not in a golden age of photography here kids.. Things have gone extinct without us noticing.. Remember Oriental paper? Remember Kodak Chemicals that worked? One cant say that 20 3 person companies rebranding kentmere and foma bulk film is a golden age of "new film stocks appearing on the market".
Look at how paper and developer chemicals have changed to meet EPA requirements, look at how much FILM has had to change to meet those same requirements.
I was looking at one retailer last night due to an email from them.. they sell the 5 pack of pro photo 100 for 50$,, but each roll is sold at 7$ individually. 120 kodak gold 200 is a 7$ per individual roll, 50$ for the kodak 5 pack.. what a wonderful world we have kids.
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