Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 11/17/2002 9:18:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
jason@... writes:

> By the way Steve, kudos on the article in Art Business News! I just saw
> it last night. Well done!
> 
> -Jason
> Wow! somebody actually saw the article ;0) cool!  Its the first time I had 
actually seen the magazine, and this particular issue (oct) featured 
photography issues!
Photography is basically HOT and making galleries, dealers, and publishers 
lots of money in the art markets.
Another, issue keeping me from working and spending time with my bad writing 
skills came up today!
I spent the day Making various pinhole plates for one of my 4x5 cameras. I 
wanted a very soft focus ultra smooth look. Shot a bunch of polaroids, with 
different hole sizes and bellows draws and really nailed the look I was 
looking for. Ready to hit the road with this contraption, and for some reason 
I opened photoshop and applied a big Gaussian blur to an image. Shit! It 
nailed the look I was looking for too. Do I shoot pinholes anyway so I can 
say there pinholes? just blurring them doesn't seem right. Then again,  for a 
long time I felt that I was cheating by using xrays instead of light to 
expose film. 
Past time for therapy I think..
Steve M.




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