Digital Photographer and Image maker Photography means painting or drawing with light, so there are no rules on what can or what cannot be used to draw or paint with that light. I see it as a process where you have unlimited creative possibilities in the pre-conception, capturing and manipulation of your images.The final image should be autonomous from the way in which it was created and be open to its own visual and aesthetic interpretation. In this regard I see myself more as a digital image maker than a traditional photographer. Pre-conception and planning is important to me in the image making process. I usually try to visualise what I want to achieve before I shoot. The hardest part is to conceive things that are new and unique and find different ways to approach and interpret subject matter. Capturing the image is about creative problem solving. Every time you take a picture you have to make choices and combinations to solve the problems inherent to the particular environment. Every situation have its own technical challenge and you have to make the right choices for that situation. The choice that you make (Lens, shutter, aperture etc.) will have its own characteristics with different outcomes. Post production of the images is a further extension in the creative process, sometimes I will spend lots of time on a single image and not much time on many images. It depends on what the final result of the image should be. The digital darkroom is like traditional darkroom with tools and techniques such as toning, contrast adjustment, dodging and burning. It also offers the potential to manipulate and experiment to create something new and different, rather than just documenting reality. There are arguments from traditionalist regarding image manipulation, which it is claimed to turn photographs into digital art. However, when you make use of digital camera there is already some form of manipulation performed by the camera and makes it by definition into digital art. You may strive to capture the perfect photograph, true to what you see in every detail, but what you produce is still digital art that looks a lot like a traditional photo.