Digital BW, The Print

While I still shoot film and find it far superior to digital capture  
for BW work in all but a few narrow applications,  I certainly can't  
see a case being made for maintaining a pure wet darkroom at this  
point.  That said, many of his comments about starting with a well  
thought out and conceived negative are certainly still true regardless  
of the final workflow.

Robert


On Saturday, August 9, 2003, at 10:43  AM, Phil Bard wrote:

>> IF I'm not mistaken, this was written not too long ago.
>>
>> www.barnbaum.com/thoughts.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andre
>
> I spoke to Bruce on a recent trip he made to Portland, and someone  
> else present
> brought this subject up.  Bruce was just as he comes off in this  
> statement, and,
> although he has many good points, his objectivity is severly skewed by  
> his devotion
> to the wet process. I've always greatly admired his work, but I have  
> to say my
> admiration was diminshed by this encounter. It's a bit sad to see  
> someone like him,
> along with Burkett and a few others, in the posture of street corner  
> preachers to an
> increasingly less interested crowd of passers-by.  Oddly enough, there  
> were 2 prints
> on display, and I had to say for all their "radiance of a finely  
> crafted silver print" they
> both could have been improved upon in a digital workflow...
>
> Phil
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