Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I ALWAYS understood Tommy. SonC (who didn't inhale) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] photoshop and the end of the world as we know it > Thing is in a way nothing has changed because in the analog world there > is such a thing as master printers, I just might be one who can take a > boring poorly exposed and developed negative of poorly chosen subject > matter with sub standard Compostion and make such an excellent print > from it on fiber paper; Amidol, split printing, selenium toning to perfection. > If one shoots in larger and larger formats especially when one hits the > sheet film area it becomes less and less important how high the general > level of vision there is. One can shoot road kill and from a 5x7 neg > make a print that would blow away something shot with a 90 Summicron > Asph apo on Neopan Across in Beutlers of Adriana Lima taken during the > decisive moment with on the edge Compostion (head cut off). > > Saved in the printing. > > With these Photoshop masters though i think of the pinball wizard > sitting in a 5th grade classrrom in front of the Mac on his Desk.... > > > > He's a pinball wizard > There's got to be a twist > A pinball wizard > He's got such a supple wrist > > How do you think he does it? > (I don't know) > What makes him so good? > > He ain't got no distractions > Can't hear those buzzers and bells > Don't see lights a flashin' > Plays by sense of smell > Always gets a replay > Never tilts at all > That deaf, dumb and blind kid > Sure plays a mean pinball > > I thought I was > The Bally table king > But I just handed > My pinball crown to him > > Even on my usual table > He can beat my best > His disciples lead him in > And he just does the rest > He's got crazy flipper fingers > Never seen him fall > That deaf, dumb and blind kid > Sure plays a mean pinball > > > (replace pinball with photoshop) > > > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.rabinergroup.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html