Digital BW, The Print

Bill Agee wrote:

>Well, Richard, I will stipulate that you are not a reactionary 
>"purist", but you Keith and Austin are just "more pure" than the rest 
>of us..
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Whoa!

Got me in the wrong category pardner..

I love PhotoShop for image work...  I don't give a darn  how much anyone 
uses it..  The only place I find overuse of PhotoShop in any way 
dishonest, is in News  oe Reportage..

My position is that just as there is good and bad photography,  there is 
good an bad PhotoShop..  IMHO good PhotoShop is anything that helps 
create a better image that better conveys the artist's intent.. I'd much 
rather do an unsharp mask in PhotoShop.. or color correction.. Can you 
imagine trying to get the prints you wnat out of cross-processing 
without PhotoShop? (It may have been done in the past - but PShop makes 
cross-processing  a toll with a wider application of its own)  


Keith
 
 



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