Digital BW, The Print

Nah, photography is about a lot of things but the least is technology. The
ability to see an image in the mind where no one else has, the instinct to
be somewhere, the presence of mind to capture that image while everyone else
is standing around with their mouths wide open, the pure instinct to
understand the story that you can tell if you capture the image. That is
photography. Just as CEO's hire mathematicians but don't do the math,
generals have soldiers but don't do the fighting. That is the technical
aspect of photography. You can be a great photographer without ever being a
technician but you will never be a great photographer no matter how great a
technician you are in the darkroom or with an inkjet printer. Ansel Adams
was first a great photographer who took Fred Archer's idea and applied art
to technology. When was the last time you said, oh look! There is a picture
by Fred Archer.

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nemo
Niemann
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 1:58 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Epson Exhibition Fiber - A Review

 

Photography has always been about the technical. In my mind, it's the
melding of the technical and the aesthetic/art. In my wet darkroom
days, I had a a chart of a myriad of film/developer combinations, all
of which gave me a different look/feel to the negative. In a way, the
Zone System is the penultimate techie form of "analog" photography.

If anything, digital has made taking photos easier for the layman --
just ask all those Art Directors turned Photographers I compete with
these days, because they think "anyone" can take photos, if they have
"the eye". Don't get me wrong; the equipment doesn't make the
photographer, per se, but it's an extension of the eye. Photography
has always been about the technical, we just never called it that,
because computers weren't involved.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhit
<mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>
eThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Robert W
Shearer" <rwshearer@...> wrote:
>
> The one real "negative" if you will pardon the pun with the digital
age is
> that far to often, it becomes more about the technology and less
about the
> image.

 



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