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RE: [Digital BW] Color vs BW film for printing BW

2004-10-11 by Paul D. DeRocco

> From: bhhc [mailto:tawow@...]
>
> 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.

Well, you've just mildly insulted something like half the photographers in
the world.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

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