Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Mark Tucker" <mark@m...> 
wrote:
> --- 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 ?
> 
> _______
> 
> 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

Changing your mind about a print or edition the next morning is quite 
different from accepting what you did 15 years ago.
But hey - this is a conversation not an argument - 'cos i agree with 
your motivation/intention - i just cant yet get my head around the 
idea of destroying the negative/file after printing and saying that's 
that, and wish there were another way to achieve your intended goal- 
it's a very important issue for us all.