Both and proud.
Your implication that photographers took "perfect" photos in the camera back in the film days is just totally unfounded.
A hell of a lot of the tools in photoshop are called what they are called because that is what the original darkroom techniques were called!
e.g. Unsharp Masking, dodge, burn etc...
Unsharp masking is thought to have been first used in Germany in the 1930s as a way of increasing the acutance, or apparent sharpness, of photographic images. The "unsharp" of the name derives from the fact that the technique uses a blurred, or "unsharp", positive to create a "mask" of the original image. The unsharped mask is then combined with the negative, creating the illusion that the resulting image is sharper than the original.
Dodging and burning are a technique used during the printing process to manipulate the exposure of a selected area(s) on a photographic print, deviating from the rest of the image's exposure. Dodging decreases the exposure for areas of the print that the photographer wishes to be lighter, while burning increases the exposure to areas of the print that he or she wishes to be darker. Any material with varying degrees of opacity may be used, as preferred, to cover and/or obscure the desired area for burning or dodging. One may use a transparency with text, designs, patterns, etc., a stencil, or a completely opaque material shaped according to the desired area of burning/dodging. Ansel Adams elevated dodging and burning to an art form. Many of his famous prints were manipulated in the darkroom with these two techniques. Adams wrote a comprehensive book on this very topic called The Print.
In the days of film it was very common to combine multiple exposures in the camera by re cocking the shutter without advancing the film.
Get with the plan, the world is changing, its the image that matters, use the tools to hand. I guess you wouldn't suggest we all go back to pinhole cameras because lenses are evil? Or maybe you would?
Jeffa
