Digital BW, The Print

on 7/27/2002 3:16 PM, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com at
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:46:18 -0400
> From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@...>
> Subject: RE: Re: Canon D60 Question
> 
>> Unless you can light your photograph from scratch, and have most equipment
>> you need at your disposal, including crew, then selective lightening and
>> darkening, and curves etc are essential to making a fine
>> photograph and not
>> a technical reproduction.
>> 
>> It's very very rare that nature provides perfection without a bit of help
>> from a visionary.
> 
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> With proper metering, exposure, framing and development...and setpoints and
> tonal curves, I can get exactly what I want from an image, with all the
> tonal detail I want...and I take it as a challenge to get all that right.
> 
> I spend a lot of time calibrating my entire system to allow me to do that.
> I love to work with what exists in a scene...and enjoy seeing what I see in
> the "image" as it exists, not in what I can turn it in to via PS.  That's
> simply my "workflow"...and what I like to do.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Austin


Austin,

What a shame.  You've witnessed so many powerful images with flaws, and you
haven't exposed them because what existed was not quite right or good
enough.

My comment assumed proper metering, exposure, framing and development, and
tonal curves.  It's selecting where to put those curves that makes the image
stronger and more powerful.

Forgive me but your "purist" approach sometimes sounds to me like a painter
saying "never mix paints, you'll change the way they came from the factory!"

 
-Bruce

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