Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Agee" <billagee@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Very cool B&W Lightjet prints


> At 10:18 PM -0700 9/16/02, Martin Wesley wrote:
> >Austin, Tim,
> >
> >.....
> >
> >Personally I don't care how little or how much a print has been
manipulated
> >before or after the shutter clicked or in the dark or in the computer. If
it
> >is a good print and I like it, how it got that way is not important.
(Unless
> >I want to know how to do it myself!<G>)
> >
> ......
>
> >Martin Wesley
> >
> >
>
> Martin, I totally agree with your position. I would put it that the
> end result is what counts, not how one got there...and yet another
> way..."all's fair in love and Photography."
>

Bill,

Yep. Thing of it is though, for some people the "how it got there" is very
important. Just from all the comments to that effect this is obviously the
case. There is the scientific or technical fact that when you trip the
shutter, light reflected off of real objects passes through the lens (and
filters) and records an image on the film or CCD array. The negative or
image file then is a factual representation of this physical event. To that
degree the camera is objective. If people want to build on that towards a
certain style of photography and/or a philosophy of "Photography" or "Art"
more power to them. Have at it. The full frame Leica street photography
school has produced some wonderful stuff so it is a very workable concept.

What is rubbing people the wrong way here is that rather than promoting the
value or beauty of such a method, the proponents are instead placing their
approach on a pedestal and making denigrating comments about other
approaches. You don't get many converts by offending people.

Martin