Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "frankg_photo" 
<frank@f...> wrote:
 or, you later learn a new 
> techniquein PS that greatly enhances the image, or in the fresh 
light 
> of dawn, you simply change your mind and that top right hand 
corner 
> just has to be be a tad darker :-). Can any evolving artist really 
> close the door on these options ?

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A photographer is always evolving and learning new methods, 
shortcuts, and techniques. He's always perfecting his craft. It's a 
natural evolution.

Let's also hope that he's also continuing to shoot photographs. 
New photographs. Any new techniques that you naturally learn 
along the way would be applied to these new photographs that 
you're making.

Who wants to sit around and obsess over some photograph that 
you made five years ago? You did your best at that time; that was 
then, this is now. The past is the past.

I put up some images on my site this weekend that I shot fifteen 
years ago. My connection to them is moderate to average; I 
simply copied the fiber print with a digital camera to get them 
onto the web. I didn't obsess over them. Almost, in some weird 
way, when I impulsively went to burn down a corner in one of 
them, I stopped because I felt like I was violating the image. I 
printed like I printed in 1985; I want to respect that. I print like I 
print in 2002; obviously with a very different take on life. I think 
each one deserves respect.

Just my opinion. But I'm not looking backwards.

-MT