Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, guy washburn
<guido02474@y...> wrote:
 What you felt wasn't something to
> be left to chance why should it's expression be?
> 
> Guy

Guy, we disagree ultimately, but it's been fun: What I "felt" was in
fact blessed by chance, just as life is. Good fortune is commonly
frittered away by excess..too much "considering." Ansel's biggest gift
was not obsessive craftsmanship, it was his courting of chance, his
presence in the mountains at the right times with adequate craft. I
think he'd have been as great if he shot chromes for Arizona Highways
in the Fifties, completely ignoring B&W.

Djon

> 
> --- Djon <westsidemaurice@y...> wrote:
> 
> > Guy, you and I evidently do understand these matters
> > similarly. Ansel
> > was almost a sensualist too, while young :-)
> > 
> > I certainly do NOT always get "exactly" the print I
> > envision (that's
> > only theoretically possible to the digitally
> > preoccupied). I don't
> > think "exact" is a virtue, for that matter. I do
> > reliably get very
> > close approximations, just as you and I did in the
> > darkroom, and
> > occasional happy surprises that may less available
> > to people who play
> > the game the way you now seem to recommend.