Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To Photoshop or not to Photoshop, that is the question. ;-) Or is it, use reality or not to use to reality? :-) Guys and Gals, I've just spent several hours in the good old fashion "dark room" making wet prints, washing, drying and all that other stuff we do with such reckless abandon before the mighty photo god ...... Photoshop descended on planet earth or whatever. You know, as much as I enjoy using Photoshop, not for screwing with pictures, but the ease and convenience of making prints on demand without all the fuss and muss of the wet darkroom, it's wonderful. Then once a photo is electronically saved heck I can go back a year later and knock off a hundred identical prints without batting an eye getting nary a wet hand. However, their is an old fashion mystique of doing it real-time with hands in the trays and watching those wonderful photographs come to life under the orange dark room lights. Damn I love it! It's mine coming to life and I don't get that same kind of magical feeling when I'm electronically tweaking a burn here or there in Photoshop. It seems cold and just sits there on a screen. Like no giving a life feeling happens as it prints out. Maybe I'm just a sentimental old fool, but as much as I'm always in awe of the electronic print, I just can't set aside the good old fashion darkroom. It has life and feelings, I suppose so many wonderful memories of seeing dramatic moments captured on film and then prints coming up in the soup is tough to cast aside for a "machine!" OK OK I'll go back to the dark and make prints. ;-) Hopefully you guys and gals will have this seemingly endless "to Photoshop or not to Photoshop" debate to an end by the time I'm finished printing. ;-) ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html