Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I really do not care about what others do, but as far as I am concerned making the print, albeit in a digital darkroom, is as satisfying as taking the photograph in the first place. Both are equally enjoyable. Maybe that is why I drown in Print Exchanges! Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Paolo Burlando <pburphoto at gmail.com> wrote: > no intention to throw oil on fire, but cartier-bresson was not a fan of > darkroom. many of his pictures were made great by those who worked for/with > him in the darkroom. i don't think we can say hcb to be a negligible event > - > so to say - in photography. > > still agree that the final product on paper can teach a lot and that the > excess of available technology produces an excess of self-confidence > > running after the last tech products is a sort of short-term collectors' > fever > > all imho > > paolo > > > On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Richard Man wrote: > > > You are talking about Mark here :-) > > > > I do have to agree that making good prints have been a highly useful > > learning experience for me, especially B&W prints. > > > > It takes a lot of work to make the print sings. Just when you think you > are > > done, someone throws cold water on your head, and you have to > begrudgingly > > agree that they may be right, and back to work you go. > > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Daniel Ridings <daniel at dlridings.se> > wrote: > > > >> > >> Do we have to be egoists to be good? Do we have to be prepared to walk > >> over corpses to get our message out? > >> > >> Daniel > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > > // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > previous > > replies in your msgs. ] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _________ > Paolo Burlando > CH-8127 Forch > Switzerland > e-mail: pburphoto at gmail.com > http://home.ggaweb.ch/pburphoto/Paolo_Burlando_Photographer/Home.html > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >