Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "frankg_photo" 
<frank@f...> wrote:
- 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.


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Frank,

Obviously some of my suggestions are on the extreme end of 
things. I think since the whole offhanded statement of "Oh, just 
push the button and pop out another one" offends me so much 
that I feel like I've gotta swing back the other way in an equal 
degree.

I'm not even really making any statements here; I feel like I'm 
more asking questions. Sort of "what if" questions; not like you 
have to act on them, but just "what if" we did this whole thing 
another way. How could we change perceptions? I think that we 
can (and must) take responsibility for changing it; no one else 
will. We all have the power to change and alter what people think 
when they think of fine photographs that are produced from an 
inkjet printer. The question is: how will we do it?

The Leica probably got snickered at at one time as well. I can 
hear the jeers now -- "what are you gonna do with that toy 
camera?", when everybody else in town was shooting a Crown 
Graphic. What did those Leica guys do -- they brought back great 
images that couldn't be produced with those big clunky cameras.

I read more today in that B&W Magazine. Some article about the 
ABC's of Print Collecting. Ironically, the author cautioned 
collectors not to poo-poo digital prints, AS LONG AS they had 
firm, solid information from the photographer that they had used 
the utmost in archival materials to produce the print. (Nothing 
wrong with that advice; they even mentioned the same thing 
about GSP and its related processing methods).

All this is just rolling around in my head. Plus, I'm pissed that my 
pigments in my 9600 won't produce a quality black on matte 
paper, and I can't go to dyes for fear of fading. So I'm acting kinda 
like a mouse who's back in a corner. Everywhere I turn, it's the 
wrong way.

-MT, http://marktucker.com/