Digital BW, The Print

In my book, a projected slide is not a picture. A graphic representation of a "photo", only suggests graphic arts to me. I do suggest to people that they really do not have anything until it's printed. Paper is the platter an image is served on - a photograph/picture.

I love slides compared to monitor projections - rear projections. The old View Master was rear projection and I liked that just fine.

gar

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On 4/6/2009 at 10:31 PM AlanScharf wrote:

>I argue with my photographer friends that the PRINT is the photograph,
>not the image seen on a computer. For me the print size is a critical
>aesthetic consideration. The eye moves (slightly) around a little computer
>image in an entirely different way that it moves around a real print. 
>
>Also, the junk surrounding the computer image, including the monitor
>itself, pulls the image up to the plane of the monitor screen, destroying
>the character of the photograph as a window to the beyond.
>
>Do any of you have opinions about prints vs screen images?
>
>-- Alan Scharf
>Saskatoon