[pure-silver] Re: what would you attribute the difference to?
- From: "Harry Lock" <harrylock@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:46:01 +0200
Hi Janet
I think that it is simply that there is a difference, which some people see and
others don't. It is not a case of digi vs. film, or one being better than the
other, they are two different mediums and should be seen as such. There are
plenty of bad prints made in the darkroom and just as many superb digital
prints, and the opposite is also true, so I think the comparison is, frankly,
pointless.
I have a darkroom, and I have Photoshop, and both serve me well, but in
different ways.
There is my penny's worth.
Cheers
Harry
----- Original Message -----
From: Janet Cull
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 8:48 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: what would you attribute the difference to?
We're not supposed to attach images on here, as I understand it. And
there are 35 prints on the wall. Sorry I don't have a scan to attach,
but I also don't think it's anything different than what we all do in
the darkroom. She simply sees a difference her converted to b&w
digitals and a hand-made print. Maybe the answer is that simple?
Maybe it's just the difference between digital and hand-made-in-the
darkroom prints, though a better-than-I photographer who has gone
digital swears he can do anything he did before better now. I don't
want to turn this into a film vs. digi discussion, so I'll back out
now if I should, and leave my answer to her simply that it's a custom
print done in the darkroom. I just wanted to explain the difference.
Or at least understand it.
Oh, and "sent her gushing"? I didn't mean to imply that, if I did.
Thanks.
On Aug 24, 2009, at 2:45 PM, winddancing wrote:
> To me it is odd that a "pencil drawing" attribution is accorded to a
> "wet" print unless a great deal of work went into creating it that
> way. It is common to "edit" images in the digital world via "effect
> filters" or what is called Plug-ins. Of course you could use fewer
> words and show us the example that sent her gushing. A much larger
> print than 4" X 6" on a rough or textured paper viewed too close may
> fall apart to appear graphic like news papers of old yet still look
> good from a distance.
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