Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Quoth the Alan: > Me too, and I consider the smells, etc. as part of the process of > photography that I've loved since I first took it up, or should I say, > it took me. I would never want to be without a darkroom. Getting from > taking the picture to final result is a journey, like riding a > motorcycle - it's not just the destination, it's the trip. I guess > we're the equivalent of black powder enthusiasts. I tell people... if you're just interested in photographs, go digital. If you're interested in photography, shoot film, preferably B&W, and find a way to spend enough time in the darkroom doing your own work to learn what's possible and what's involved. After that, if you're so inclined, you can outsource some of the "trained chimp" aspects of the task, but I really think you need to do the whole process from one end to the other for a while just so you get a feel for how it all fits together. Of course the digital artist photographers all disagree, and they get much more sophisticated PS output than I... and that's certainly the future. But, hell, I'm a dinosaur destined for fairly short-term extinction (in geologic terms, anyway) and it was never really so much about the economics of it for me, so... -- R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request