Digital BW, The Print

David,

> > > I'll certainly grant all the obvious ways in which a photo is an
> > > abstraction from reality, and not the reality itself.  Frozen moment,
> >
> > Why is a frozen moment not reality?
>
> Reality is continuous and fluid.
>
> > > chosen angle,
> >
> > And why is that not reality?
>
> Reality occurs in the round, including the parts we can't see.
>
> > > in B&W loss of color,
>
> > But color is not the only reality, there is also IR, UV, grayscale etc.
> > It's merely a different spectral response.
>
> B&W is less information than color.  IR and UV are also relevant (and
> radio and x-rays and all that).  And a photo only captures some small
> part of this.  (All of them are used for photography in one situation
> or another, butn ot *all at once*).

You are saying an instant in time, nor a prospective, nor a sensory
perception are not reality?  Pure poppycock!  (hey, I've always wanted to
say that ;-).

Austin