25 years ago we were still learning techniques like this in the darkroom. I actually feel like you could edit more back then, in a different way. Mess with chemicals, overlays, timing… You could physically do it, like natural piano/drums dynamics vs digital sounding too clean.
This is the photo I use as an example when people complain about editing in photography. The diagonal shadow was famously added in post production:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_Ho#"Approaching_Shadow",_1954_《陰影》
Oh. That does make it a little less cool. But only a little.
25 years ago we were still learning techniques like this in the darkroom. I actually feel like you could edit more back then, in a different way. Mess with chemicals, overlays, timing… You could physically do it, like natural piano/drums dynamics vs digital sounding too clean.
Yeah, I was also surprised when I read about it on Wikipedia.