It's March 26, 2006, and this is the Candid Frame.

Anybody can take a picture, but not everybody can make a great photograph.

It used to be that if you wanted to complete control over your image making,

not only would you invest in cameras and an assortment of lenses,

but you'd also invest in a dark room,

with its enlarger and enlarging lenses,

developing trays and chemicals.

Now in the digital age,

we have digital cameras and memory cards instead of film.

We import our images into computers,

and we enhance and manipulate the image in Photoshop.

And then we output the files onto inkjet printers, where we can produce prints that will last decades and sometimes even

centuries.

The age of digital has certainly made things more accessible, if not easier.

We have now more control than we ever had in a traditional dark room, but that doesn't

necessarily mean that we're making better photographs.

The tools, the cameras, the software, the printers, the printers, the printers, they're

providing greater control now than we had before.

But it's still the imagination of the photographer that produces a great photograph.

You look at the work of Manway, W. Eugene Smith, Ansel Adams,

and each of these photographers weren't simply satisfied with the image created inside of the camera.

That was just a starting point.

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