Digital BW, The Print

>You can do the same
>with filters in front of the lens, but filters slow down your shooting, and
>make you commit to one particular effect for each shot.

Obviously you shoot everything with a hi-speed Canon and hope that you will get something, if anything! "slow down your shooting", please . . . most competent photographers I know have an idea of what they are looking for, including the contrast effect (frequently part of their style). The "one" particular effect that you speak of is more often than not the one the photographer was looking for, as opposed to an "artiste" hacking away at something with every function photoshop has to offer, hoping to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Long live digital/electronic blather! No matter how sophisticated it becomes, it will never make up for previsualization . . . and that also applies to charcoal pencil drawings, oil painting, watercolour, writing, . . . any creative pursuit.

Paul Aparycki

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