Digital BW, The Print

From: "Djon" <westsidemaurice@...>
Subject: Re: Best Book on B&W with Photoshop

<snip>But IMO 75% of the posts on this Forum seem more
to suggest education
in NON-technical aspects of B&W, most especially
"pre-visualization"...a skill that's almost never
mentioned on digital
forums...there's a blind spot.</snip> 

<snip>It probably has to do with the derivative
post-card tendencies of the
"fine" photos we see most often online: minds occupied
with technique
rather than eyes and heart involved in images.</snip>

IMHO too, of course, I agree wholeheartedly.  These
forums are about equipment, so it would be absurd to
complain, but the finest equipment and technique in
the world still needs the photographer's eye and heart
and mind and experience, among a google other things,
to produce images with emotional depth.  

I believe you learn more about emotionally expressive
photography from T.S. Eliot or Modigliani or Leonardo
or Nabokov, to pick names at random, or just watching
light, than you can from  endless technical worries. 
Comes a time, and I see it often on other photo
forums, where having all that equipment is blocking
the photographer's expression, not enabling it. 

Back to lurking, with great respect,
Joe


		
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