[pure-silver] Re: The Quest and My Heresy??
- From: "Dana H. Myers" <dana.myers@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:26:03 -0800
Tim Rudman wrote:
> Thank you Claudio ;-)
> I was just reading this thread and debating whether to jump in and disagree,
> but you did it for me.
>
> I entirely agree that often the process really makes the image. I usually
> consider the straight print as simply a starting point for the artwork I
> plan to make and I usually 'see' it in more or les finished form when I take
> it, knowing that printed another way it would hold little interest. This
> works for me (I hope) because I do see it in a particular way at the taking.
> It would not necessarily work I think if a poor image was subsequently
> altered to try and make a silk purse out of the proverbial sow's ear. Post
> processing techniques can have a powerful effect on colour, tonal
> relationships, bringing certain tones into dominance or the reverse and
> these issues are important in the way an image speaks to the viewer.
Agreed - and none of this contradicts my original point. When I speak
of "interesting images", I mean, the thing on the print that people look
at.
How the image got onto the print doesn't change a thing - it's either
interesting or it isn't.
Cheers -
Dana
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