24th February 2010, 11:52 AM
I don’t think we need professional photographers or illustrators. With digi cameras it pretty much point and shoot and draw is what archaeologists do day in and out. What archaeologists need is a reason to take a picture or draw an object. Theres a lot of pictures taken because the brief says there must be pictures taken of all features before and after and many briefs insisting that wet chemistry is still to be used with all the inherent taking three pictures with different f stops, color film and B/W slide and frankly 99.999% will never see the light of day again as they are utterly pointless. I am not sure what to make of hostys recommended pictures. They seem like frontispiece items. I am not sure that they have any archaeological worth with the worry that people might think that all archaeological illustration/pictures should look like that.