Digital BW, The Print

Hello Frank. I pretty much shared your thoughts, I believe, in the
body of the post that was quoted. My thought is that the out take was
CD's way of segueing into a pitch for the latest and greatest. Clever
promotion.

Nothing wrong with the latest and greatest from my perspective---but,
I suspect that most of those walking the halls of great museums know
easily what they like and are impressed by, and few beyond scholars
and artists disect the techniques and tools used. 

CD's target audience was and is already predisposed toward the new,
but the print he mentioned must have been impressive enough on it's
own to make people want it. I doubt greatly that a nothing ho..hum
content would have drawn much aclaim, irrespective of technical print
quality.
Otherwise all would have been saying "man.I want that machine" rather
than "I want that print".

CD is a great contributer of his knowledge to this and other groups
but his recompense is to gain a platform. 

Just my IMO.

Regards
Duane
 



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Frank Kolwicz
<kolwicz@...> wrote:
>
>  > It's hard to argue with the concept that only the best is good
enough.
> 
> But, there's also the aphorism that "the perfect is the enemy of the 
> good". I take that to mean that chasing the perfect technique may keep 
> you from making "merely good" prints of your truly creative work, which 
> is what I think we really should be striving for.
> 
> I also have to wonder about images that only seem to be interesting 
> because of the technique used to create them - is it my vision or my 
> advanced technique that I'm  offering? Shouldn't great vision with 
> merely good technique trump poor vision, no matter how exalted a 
> technique is used? If it's all about technique, why should we print and 
> show anything but grayscales?
> 
> Obviously (at least I think it's obvious), there has to be some
balance: 
> pursue your technique while refining your vision, but don't let "merely 
> good" technique prevent you from doing your creative work - expand your 
> technique as your vision demands.
> 
> Frank
>