Digital BW, The Print

> I'm sorry, you can all call me a Luddite (which I'm not I use PS
> extensively, have read 4 books on it and have taken 3 workshops in
> using it for photography), but those who want to blindly and broadly
> classify ANY all-out use of PS for whatever reason as perfectly
> acceptable I find are usually the ones who depend on it the most. 
What
> did photographers ever do before PS came along? Just toss out all
> those awful slides on the light table?
> 


Richard...condescending aside (it's probably good for the soul and 
making you a better person in any event <g>...

This thread doesn't even consider the (apparently) small number of us 
who have dropped film and chemistry altogether...after 30 years of 
smelly hands, I just won't go there any longer.

The image taken with a digital camera has no place to go but to 
Photoshop...does it? Does that make it "not a photo"?

We seem to miss the essence we are all striving to capture and 
project (possibly a pun)... IF you and Austin will admit that images 
captured on CCDs can be photos (and I know you both will)...then this 
thread has taken a wrong turn altogether, IMHO.

Tom O'Connell