This is my first entry. I made a transition from photojournalism which strives for objectivity to digital imaging, which works in the realm of subjectivity. Digital imaging is the new kid on the block, so it needs some explanation in its formative years. Photography is a reaction to light. Digital imaging may or may not begin with natural light. The final product is an array of pixels combining the artist’s psyche, and his or her fingers playing across the computer keyboard.
It’s new technology, but aesthetically, it’s a throwback to the primitive potter molding clay, or a Renaissance painter discovering oils.
You may say, “But the computer does it.” Well, early photography was dismissed because, “The camera does the drawing.” It took many years for photography to be recognized as a creation of the photographer, not the camera. What counts is the inner passion of the artist, as manifest in the work.