Digital BW, The Print

"I'm not interested in photography, I'm interested in people!"- Henri 
Cartier-Bresson
"If the photo is not good enough it means you weren't close enough" 
-Robert Capa

Happy shooting !

Andrei

Joe Cantrell wrote:

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


> <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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