Digital BW, The Print

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From: "dickbo" <Dickbo@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: Print Tonality was Re: [Digital BW] Thoughts about Imaging


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 6:32 AM
> Subject: Print Tonality was Re: [Digital BW] Thoughts about Imaging
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> > I know that all of this is very real but I do not know how to quantify
it
> in
> > a single value or even a small set of values. My feeling is that even if
I
> > could, the decisions would be largely artistic choices.
>
> There's no such thing as an artistic choice, unless that is you are able
to
> offer an objective definition of the term artistic.

Dick,

I confess you lost me there. By artistic choice I meant that we each make a
choice of materials based upon our opinon sas to which one will best serve
the creation of the work of art we have in mind.

Since "artistic" simply means "of, relating to, or characteristic of art" in
this context, I see myself making a entire series of artistic choices from
the moment I point my camera in a certain direction choosing a composition,
all the way up to the minute details of whether I want to set the contrast
of some tiny area in a print file to +3% or +4%. Maybe we are just lost in
semantics.
>
> I believe what you really, really mean is subjective choices which really
> comes down to personal preference and therefore has nothing to do with
> anything or anybody but your good self.

Exactly. My art, which takes the form of photographic prints, is solely of
my creation. In my statement above I meant that making choices of materials
based upon our perception of tonality is one that has to be made for
artistic reasons not because we might be able to derive some numerical
value.

Martin