Digital BW, The Print

No you simply carte blanche accused all wishing to shoot with colour film
and convert to B&W for additional post-shutter flexibility of lacking
pre-visualisation.  A very naïve generalisation.


> From: bhhc <tawow@sympatico.ca>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:16:31 -0400
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Color vs BW film for printing BW
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> I am simply stating that it IS NOT the be all and end all . . . as seems to be
> presumed by some here. Naive? That is a stupid comment if ever there was one.
> I merely pointed out an attribute of a thinking creative process that is used
> by most photographers. That of having a previsualisation of what it is they
> want from the image. If I am naive, I am sorry but you will have to include
> Adams, Penn, Strand, Weston, Newton, Bourdin, and thousands of others in the
> commercial and "art" world who actually knew what they were looking for before
> they pushed the button. No doubt any one of them would be a formidible mind
> behind some photoshopping . . . but it would have been part of the original
> process, that of having and idea and knowing the technique to fulfill that
> idea . . . something hacks are unable to contemplate.
> 
> Paul Aparycki
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> p.s. as to fuddieduddies, take a look at the work of someone (like the aging
> old fart he is) of Rysard Horowitz. There isn't a single "new school" idiot
> who could even begin to approach his understanding of photoshop and the
> photographic image . . . those come with experience . . . something you might
> attain some day . . . if you have the intelligence
> 
>   Clearly naïve. Creativity doesn't end at the click of the shutter.  There is
>   nothing wrong with retaining the flexibility for additional creative thought
>   at a later date.  Have you never cropped an image, burned an image or dodged
>   in the darkroom or digital domain?  Hacking has nothing to do with it.
>   Taking advantage of the additional creative flexibility provided by a new
>   medium does.... I implore all photographers to experiment both before and
>   after the shutter is released.  Some old fuddy duddies seem to still be
>   stuck within the restrictive bounds of the film, shutter (slow or fast),
>   lens and a few old filters...
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