Digital BW, The Print

Nonsense.  If don't know how to use your camera you can't take a  
picture.  Just as a painter must know how to handle a brush in order  
to capture on canvas the image in his/her mind's eye, a photographer  
needs to know how to handle the tools of his trade. Else you can  
daydream all you want but not be able to share that creativity in a  
photo.  Now of course, technical ability doesn't make you an artist.   
But it's hard to practice without both creative and technical  
skills.  Explore both.


On 10 Feb 2008, at 20:18, Robert W Shearer wrote:

> 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.
>
> _____
>
> 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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