Chapter Eight Digital Workflow

For many people, the joy of digital photography comes from its immediate feedback; that you can see your photograph essentially as soon as you take it. The whole process of making photographs seems to have been brought into the light (out of the darkroom) and made visible. However, many aspects of the digital workflow can in fact seem anything but clear and visible. It is in the nature of digital photography that many aspects will be hidden–concealed by layers of coding and technology that most of us could never dream of understanding. In this chapter we will attempt to make clear exactly what is happening in the ...

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