As someone who has been a pretty serious photographer since the mid-eighties*, I am often astonished to the point of laughter by how digital cameras have made the craft so ridiculously simple.
Which doesn't mean easy. In some ways, the plethora of choices can make digital photography tricky.
On Christmas day, Aaron encouraged me to use the black and white option on the camera. I never had before because I always figured I could convert any picture to B&W later if the mood struck me. But, as AWK rightly pointed out, you never do. So I snapped some virtual
Pan-X and messed around with the color select feature and was pleased with the results.
*I remember reading in
Popular Photography about the first commercial use of digital photography. It was a newspaper photographer snapping a 1.2 megapixel (I'm guessing here; but it looked like a PixelVision still) pic of a Mike Tyson fight and then submitting it over a payphone line while feeding dimes to the phone for 20 minutes. All so the paper would have art for their early edition a few hours ahead of the competition. But more, I guess, to be in the van of this inevitably transformative technology.
