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Re: [Digital BW] The perfect print

2002-08-31 by bgs

That might be true but why not use your imagination and put, maybe, an apple
in the sky or anything you want if you think the sky needs a change. Man Ray
put screw in the stem area of an apple. Makes one think a little more about
the what he really is saying and it does separate this photo from the
mundane.  bgs
----- Original Message -----
From: "bggilliand2001" <bgilliand@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] The perfect print


>
> All,
>
> If you have the PERFECT print, I'm assuming it is art, according to
> your's or the viewer's interpretation. Obvious defects may sometimes
> be a way to focus attention and add to the impact of the image. When
> you judge a print, more on technical merit than on the aesthetic,
> what are you looking for? Several posts have been helpful, such as
> this:
>
> But what do you do when you see a beautiful pictorial image with a
> very
> obvious rule that was broken? Suppose you had a very smooth gray sky,
> but the right corner was much too light. You KNOW it's supposed to be
> uniform across the print, but there it is... the corner is a full stop
> lighter than the rest of the sky. It would make a beautiful picture a
> very average one, and you'd wonder why it wasn't even. You'd ask why
> in
> the world the prints maker didn't burn it in.
>
>
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