Digital BW, The Print

Mark, your work is wonderful.  Looking at you site again reminded me of your 
Plungercam.

Before you took up that configuration with your Hassy, did you try any 
Photoshop filters or plug-ins?  I seem to remember something called 
Vari-focus, perhaps from KPT, that controlled focus at various points of an 
image.  Did you find those things unsuitable or do you just like to tinker?

Helene

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., grdglass@a... wrote:
> Before you took up that configuration with your Hassy, did you 
try any 
> Photoshop filters or plug-ins?


Those Photoshop filters just seem "wrong" to me, on some 
level. Some things seem OK to use in Photoshop; other 
functions seem to cross the line. I feel that way too with those 
fake Photoshop borders; it's just plain wrong.

I've had this thing from The Imaging Factory on my desktop for 
weeks now. Some cheesy software to throw focus, kinda like the 
680 or a view camera. I just can't bring myself to use it. I think
the link is something like: http://www.theimagingfactory.com. It's 
called DOF Simulator. Try it at your own risk; it's your karma, not 
mine.

Everybody comes into Photoshop at a different place in their life. 
Sensibility-wise, I'm stuck somewhere between 
HCB/Magnum/etc, and maybe The Starns Twins. I do some 
things in Photoshop, but can't bear to shoot a digital camera. 
Everybody's gotta find his own comfort zone.

There's also the Zork MFS system, that could be funky, but I 
found it to be "too good". http://www.zoerk.com. But at least you're 
doing it in the camera, instead of in the Mac. The ultimate would 
be an interchangeable-lens Diana that didn't leak light, (and 
scanner software that did automatic dust-spotting)...