Have you ever thought before how photographers take and edit
photographs before the invention of Adobe Photoshop? During that period, when a
photographer wanted to take an amazing shoot, what he needs to do is to carry
his heavy camera with all of his other equipment with him everywhere and when
noticed something interesting, he needs to immediately set up the camera
settings and all those equipment to catch the photograph before the moment went
away. For example, if a photographer want to take a sunset photograph, he need
to set up his camera settings and other equipment such as lens, tripod or
flashlight before evening and wait for the sunset moment to capture the
photograph. The models need to spend plenty of times in the make-up room and the
studio must be in well-lit before the photographing sessions begin. Can you
imagine how many details a photographer want to take a wonderful photograph? If
you do not have the patient, you cannot be a photographer in the past.
However, with the invention of Adobe Photoshop nowadays, all
the troublesome process can be minimize or simplify. With all of its supreme
tools and functions, Photoshop create a huge reformation wave in photography industry.
Nowadays, photographers no longer need to carry all their heavy equipment with
them everywhere when capturing the photograph. They can manipulate these
setting in the post production stage with the help of Photoshop. With this ability,
photographers can stop worrying about losing the splendid moment because of
slow equipment setting up and capture whatever interesting photographs on the
spot without caring about the settings. This indirectly enhances the creativity
of the photographers as they capture a lot of interesting moments and compose
them into a wonderful image. These can give us a new perspective on the world.
In addition, the comprehensive functions of
Adobe Photoshop enable the photographers to adding additional styles and
removing the blemishes of models in the photographs. They can make an image
reach its perfect performance before publish them to the public. The can also
create futuristic effects that invoke our imagination. In short, Adobe
Photoshop really creates much more possibilities for the photographers and photography
industry.
References:
- Campbell, S. (2010) 10 Ways How Photoshop Changed The History Of Photography. Available at: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-ways-how-photoshop-has-changed-the-history-of-photograph/. [Accessed 2 August 2013] Annotation: This website mainly talk about how the invention of Photoshop affect the professional photographers. It talk about how Photoshop make the workflow photographers easier and more efficient.
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