Digital BW, The Print

I know it's almost Halloween, but ... .
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Sam 8(


At 6:53 PM -0400 10/11/04, bhhc wrote:
>  >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