Digital BW, The Print

I don't think you can separate craft from technology.
What is art?
Maybe photography is something different to each of us.
Mike J.

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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 DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@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.