Digital BW, The Print

Agreed. Then the Artist in you comes out. But if you have a half inch
hair in the middle of an otherwise great image, I'm sorry, but it just
does not belong there, and I will fault the artist for not knowing or
caring enough about his craft to remove it.

jerry

bgs wrote:
> 
> 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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