Digital BW, The Print

John,

>I hate to break the news to ya Bob, but this is a site devoted to - DIGITAL 
>BLACK  >AND WHITE THE PRINT.

Like I said in the first line of my posting, I know that because I've been 
reading it for nearly three years. And back in the 50's I was doing my own 
developing and printing of B&W. Now I've started learning to turn some of my 
color images back into B&W; not because I personally like them any better, 
but because some others do!

>And as far as my work goes, I consider black and white an amazing
>vehicle to express what you fell about what you see.

That must be the primitive side of your brain at work! It seems that we have 
two visual systems; our ancient B&W vision (common to all sighted animals), 
on top of which evolution superimposed our color vision.

>Color photography does not make the
>work more real, just more illusionary.

But it's all an illusion isn't it? And even B&W devotees are prone to color 
their 'B&W' prints. They add colored inks to 'cool' or 'warm' their images, 
i.e. color them. Others 'tone' their silver prints with various chemicals to 
make them even more colored. And some add patches of color to their digital 
'B&W' prints.

So, if other people like these sorts of photographs, I occasionally try 
producing some. I don't have to like them necessarily.

It takes all sorts to make a world, even a B&W one.

Bob Frost.


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From: "john dean" <deanwork2003@...>