[pure-silver] Re: The Quest and My Heresy??
- From: "Ralph W. Lambrecht" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:32:42 +0100
Bob
?You can't make a silk purse out of sow's ear.¹
Take a look at this. It may change your mind.
http://www.darkroomagic.com/temp/Stonehenge.pdf
Or maybe you¹re right, but one needs the imagination to see the goods in the
negative!
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
http://www.darkroomagic.com
On 2006-12-18 19:52, "afterswift@xxxxxxx" <afterswift@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> All good points. You can't make a silk purse out of sow's ear Dep't. The real
> goods must be on the negative. So we're back to the guy behind the camera
> again. The buck stops with him. There comes a time when practice ends and
> we're post-graduate. I call it the 'take-off moment." We continue to learn,
> but it's from experience and what we learn is incidental and en passant. We're
> actually into doing real work.
>
> Bob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gkoch02@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 6:43 AM
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: The Quest and My Heresy??
>
>> >Again, *in some cases*, the original image just acts as a canvas and
> it's the post-processing that creates the
>> >WOW factor.
>> >
>> >There are various excellent examples in Tim Rudman's books where the
> straight prints look (sorry Tim !) just
>> >boring but the final result is of another magnitude.
>
> I have a completely different take on this. If a straight print is
> boring then no amount of manipulation is going to turn that negative
> into a great photo. Just producing a striking print is not enought.
> There has to be someting there to start with. That's the reason that I
> don't tone or do anything else to my prints. If a negative can't speak
> for itself then nothing is going to help it and that's the end of it.
>
> Copying others is a good learning technique but not something that one
> wants to keep doing. I am reminded of the composer Engelbert
> Humperdinck who venerated the work of Wagner. Except for his opera
> Hansel and Gretel he comes off as a second rate, imitation Wagner.
> There are too many two bit Ansel Adams in photography today. To cite
> only one example.
>
> Jerry
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