[GH85Carrera]

There is little doubt, an art student that has talent, and wants to learn the proper techniques to make something "look right" can indeed learn a lot in an art school.

Many years ago in photography, before Photoshop, if one wanted to drop out the background of a product and change it to pure white or make it look like it is somewhere else, we needed a frisket. A simple cut of on a special orange material that overlaid the image. A few steps later, ta da, the product can go in a catalog and look nice. We had a new hire, with a fresh degree in commercial art for Oklahoma State. I asked her to cut a frisket and she was clueless as to what it was. I had to grab a guy in a different department that was an old newspaper pressman. He cut the frisket in short order and off we went into production.

I remember that product, it a valve. They called and asked if we could photograph it for their catalog, and we said sure bring it in. They explained that was impossible. So we went there. It was a valve that was 10 feet tall for the oil and gas business. It was sitting in a foundry production floor. We had to bring a bunch of lights and shot the 4x5 negative and get them a perfect image with just a white background.