Digital BW, The Print

Keith,

> >>Fist, photography always has and always will be about artificiality and
> >>manipulation (it's two dimensional for goodness sake - how real and
> >>true is that...?).
> >
> >I certainly disagree with that.  A LOT of photography is about accurate
> >reproduction of a scene.
> >
>
> Not since I left Pleasantville have I seen a B&W image that actually
> accurately depicts reality.
>
> B&W imagery is axiomatically an abstraction of reality..

That's not true...it is different from some people's vision of reality, but
it IS reality, just an aspect of reality YOUR sensors don't see.  What's
there, is in fact, there.  But none the less, it's only tonally "different".
That doesn't make it an abstraction at all.

Is IR not reality?  Just because you can't see in that spectrum, doesn't
make it not reality, or make it "an abstraction of reality".

Austin