[pure-silver] Re: The Quest and My Heresy??
- From: "Ralph W. Lambrecht" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:59:39 +0100
These are good examples.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
http://www.darkroomagic.com
On 2006-12-16 14:55, "David Starr" <davestarr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:10:54 -0500, Nick Zentena <zentena@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> On Friday 15 December 2006 19:04, Bill Stephenson wrote:
>>> Tim, I have to disagree. How the image reaches the paper has no more
>>> relevance to the impact, interest, or what have you, than how you get
>>> to the Grand Canyon affects how the Canyon looks.
>>
>> Is that really true? Does the trip in no way colour the world you see?
>>
>> Take two people. One works all his life to earn some sum of money. The other
>> wins the lottery. Are their views on money going to be the same? They've both
>> ended up in the same place.
>>
>> Take somebody shooting portraits with an AF autoeverything 35mm chasing
>> little kids around. Is there view going to be no different then somebody
>> trying to take portraits with an 11x14 studio camera? Using the same studio
>> camera to take pictures of the same kids?
>>
>> How can't the process/tools not impact the image?
>>
>> Nick
>
> The process does impact the image. I once saw an exhibit of some of Irving
> Penn's work. The silver prints were beautiful, but the platinum prints of the
> same subject blew me away. I'm not talking about technical quality, like the
> difference between 35mm and 11x14, I mean the aesthetic differences. For me,
> "Moonrise" is a rather mundane subject made beautiful by AA's darkroom skills.
>
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