On Mar 26, 2006, at 1:53 PM, William Robb wrote:
For some people, myself included, the picture (or whatever, it could be a clay pot for all I care) at the end is little more than a byproduct of the process.
And some people are saying that the process determines whether one is creative or one is a technician. And that's where the arguing begins, for me anyways. In my darkroom work, I was thoroughly a technician. In my digital work I have nowhere near the depth of knowledge of the underlying technology, nor do I care to. I know exactly enough to do what I want to do, and when I want to do something new I learn how.
I could service my film processors, reduce them to their gears and reassemble them. I could tell you all about film/developer combos, water PH, fixers, etc. I have no such knowledge of the guts of my Mac or of the programming involved in Photoshop. I have no real grasp of what happens in my operating system, and I don't care to. I don't need to. Hell, I've never measured D-min or D-max from a digital print. I have from my darkroom prints.
When it comes to digital printing, I am not a techie. -Aaron
