Digital BW, The Print

Austin, Austin, Austin and Mark, Mark, Mark:
Is photography not art?
If I vary the tonal scale of the negative by utilizing the Zone System
or burn a sky or bleach a highlight or dodge a shadow, have I left the
realm of Photography and entered the Art Zone?
When I used to do silver prints (before I got religion and an Epson) I
cannot now recall ever making a print that wasn't manipulated in some
way. It would seem that even varying paper grades would move me into
art. Am I impure? 
What's wrong with an orange filter? Why limit your vision? 
S.
Stan Shire
Associate Professor/Department Chair
Photographic Imaging
Community College of Philadelphia
Adobe Photoshop 6 A.C.E.
Author: Hands On Photoshop 7: Tutorial Workshops

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hahn [mailto:markhahn2000@...] 
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 4:42 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Convert to B&W plugins
 
Ummm, do you consider choosing a specific B&W film type based on how 
it responds to colors more art than photography as well?  And why 
does a yellow filter generally render skies appear more "realist"?  
Is using color filters with B&W film not photography either?  In my 
digital transformation from color to B&W I rarely even go as extreme 
as a orange filter.

mark

...
> But that begs the question, why?  If you are drastically altering 
the
> reality of the tonality, that more becomes art than photography, at 
least in
> my book.
> 
> Austin


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