I think this touches on the core of the issue. I've always been fascinated by the way really strong photos survive the worst travesties of picture editors, printers and online copying. Others are unremarkable until some beyond-Adams darkroom wizard works on them. Levoy et al are able to create automated processes that substitute for the wizard. Of course there will always be scope for choice, good taste and judgement, but doesn't it shift the emphasis of just where creativity begins and ends?Ansel's technique was just a means toward an end. I don't think his tool kit was even particularly fancy for his own day. Most commercial labs had way better equipment; and there were a number of color printmakers in his own neighborhood with way more darkroom tricks up their sleeves than him. Everything in "The Negative" and "The Print" is quite elementary anyway. I gave away my copies long ago.
I gave away my copies of The Negative and The Print long ago too. Sometimes when I look at my photographs I think maybe I should have kept them. Sometimes when I look at other people's photographs I think maybe I gave away my copies to the wrong people. I am not sure whether Drew or I gave away our copies earlier, so I don't know who should get the trophy. Anyway, I don't have time to worry about that now. The banjo festival starts next week and I have to arrange the hay bales. We are hoping Bela Fleck will be there.Everything in "The Negative" and "The Print" is quite elementary anyway. I gave away my copies long ago.
I gave away my copies of The Negative and The Print a long time ago too. Sometimes when I look at my photographs I think maybe I should have kept them. Sometimes when I look at other people's photographs I think maybe I gave away my copies to the wrong people.
I'll be taking my daughter to Nashville for the first time this summer. We're going to take in Brandi Carlile and The Indigo Girls. We're both excited.I gave away my copies of The Negative and The Print long ago too. Sometimes when I look at my photographs I think maybe I should have kept them. Sometimes when I look at other people's photographs I think maybe I gave away my copies to the wrong people. I am not sure whether Drew or I gave away our copies earlier, so I don't know who should get the trophy. Anyway, I don't have time to worry about that now. The banjo festival starts next week and I have to arrange the hay bales. We are hoping Bela Fleck will be there.
Brandi Carlisle is of course an incredible talent, and you are sure to have a great experience with your daughter at the concert.I'll be taking my daughter to Nashville for the first time this summer. We're going to take in Brandi Carlile and The Indigo Girls. We're both excited.
Well, it would have been nice for those books to be returned, so that I could have loaned them out again to another beginner. But as far as the real "keeper" book as the companion to that set, I still have on the shelf, "Examples", which is mainly photo reproductions rather than text. Of course, I have certain big coffee-table books of AA too. But having seen so much of his work in person, and even having once shared a big retrospective with him, I rely mainly on memory concerning his actual print quality. Some of of my favorite images of his have rarely if ever been reproduced in book fashion.
Otherwise, I'm glad to have learned the Zone System, though it's now way behind in the rear view mirror. It remains in my tool box, somewhere down in there, if I ever need it. Zone-speak is also a helpful common-denominator lingo on forums like this one. It's certainly a lot more specific than simply referring to "pushing" or "pulling" film development. But there is no reason to make a kooky religion out of the Zone System, like Minor White did.
Thanks should read R U B Ea rubber.
He is as knowledgeable as anyone else who writes opinion articles on Internet forums and magazines. He knows exactly what he is talking about.
Or as a sage once said many journalists are people who can write but never had an original thought in their life.
That's a non sequitur.
Maybe what JNP (?) was suggesting was simply that the writer of the article wrote what he knows the reader wants to read. Or perhaps, as an opinion piece, it is just an opinion and the author would likely know his own opinion. There was nothing necessarily illogical in @JNP's statement.
I know I posted this link, but should we pay attention to him but perhaps refer to art historians instead? Levoy is after all more of an engineer and not and artist nor an art historian.
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