Digital BW, The Print

The "tools" that attach to photography vary from a pinhole in a cereal box  
to a complex view camera. There are many flavors in between. Technology, for 
me,  has been more an obstacle to my craft than a benefit, once the Leica was  
available. Many of us relied on the Professionals in the color labs for the  
technical stuff. Many accomplished photographers never printed their negatives,  
while many others only shot E-6 and dropped off their film. I, like many 
others,  relied on an expert printer for my darkroom work, until I learned to make 
a fine  print . It has always been the vision that photographers have had to 
have,  not sophisticated, technical equipment. I have seen many a professional 
 photographer's work that is not even in focus and never the less published, 
talk  about learning to use their cameras.
You really have me wondering what your photographs look like.
 
Richard Massie
 
 
In a message dated 2/10/2008 5:46:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
stevekale@... writes:

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.






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