pher delved into the digital world in the first place. As the adage states, “necessity is the mother of invention” and the world of photography is not exempt from this fact. Since experimentation is inherent in photography, modern day photographers needed a way to experiment more freely with their photographs in order to compete in a fast paced market. Ron Eggers’ acknowledged the fact that, “With conventional photography, experimentation could get both time consuming and costly. To try cropping a photographic print half a dozen different ways meant having to print that photograph half a dozen different times. Making other adjustments, such as trying different exposures, different types of photographic paper or different types of toning, exponentially increased the number of prints that had to be made. Each print had to be created from step one, even if the variations only involved the latter part of the process.” (Eggers, p.D1) These drawbacks leant themselves to a process that would allow the photographer to handle a task in a more of a step-by-step format rather than having to start from scratch every time. With the emergent digital technology photographers could create a series of variations for a specific exposure, select the preferred variation, and use that as a foundation for the next set of variations. Another important reason photography went the way of the digital gun was that photographers in the field needed a way to transmit their photographs to their agencies in a faster and easier way. Therefore being able to transform a picture into a digital file, with the addition of the internet, meant that a photographer could upload a picture and send it anywhere in the world in literally seconds. Evolutions such as these made it impossible for the world of photography to neglect the growing need for digital imaging. However, once digital imaging made its debut on the world stage it became abu...
