Digital BW, The Print

Scott-

Those are all good and interesting questions. Our approach to teaching 
photography now is to encourage students to think inclusively. We try 
to keep as much of the dialogue focused on the image as possible, and 
want students to elect either the digital or wet darkroom because 
that's the best method or choice for the image(s) they want to make.

The real issue for us is that we have to be as competent in teaching 
digital imaging and the digital darkroom as we've been with film-based 
photography and the wet darkroom. This requires faculty competency, 
good facilities, the right hardware and software, support staff and 
more. The effort and expense are substantial.

But it does work and we're beginning to see young photographers embrace 
this "dual competancy" idea. Right now, many of our students are 
electing to shoot film, scan, and print with ink on paper. I think this 
works well for them because they can work with a large format or medium 
format camera, shooting film, but use the enhanced control made 
possible by processing images in Photoshop and printing with ink. Even 
though many are purchasing D-SLR's, they still want to shoot 
Hasselblads and view cameras because we spend a lot of time talking 
about the "psychology of the moment"--especially important when working 
with or shooting people--and how that moment is affected by one's 
camera choice.

It's truly a great time to be a photographer. The only real drawbacks 
are cost and time.

Bill Kennedy
Austin, Texas

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott McLoughlin <scott@adrenaline.com>
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:56:08 -0500
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Digital vs. Film: the ANSWER

   Your description of students shooting LF, made me wonder something.

I'm not so interested in the progress of digital in the "pro" and
"consumer"
markets. Understandable.  And reasonably well described and report on.

But what's the medium of choice for "fine art" photographers, whether
"pro" or "serious amateur?"   Or rather, why are these folks going 
digital
or sticking with film (or both, which I suspect is common with this
demographic)?  How does color or B&W orientation effect the choice
of medium?  Who is printing digitally or sticking with the darkroom?

Scott


BKPhoto@... wrote:

> Guys-
>
>   I can tell you that college and university students, at least those
> I've talked with over the past two years, are embracing large format
> film-based photography with a real passion. I think this is, in part, 
a
> reaction to digital. It also speaks to their attachment for working in
> the wet darkroom. Lastly, the internet has made it possible for people
> interested in alternative processes to communicate on a level unheard
> of before.
>
>   Marshall McLuhan understood this phenomena perfectly: old 
technologies
> never die, they become art forms.
>
>




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