Frank, more than one person in this thread has said that the wet darkroom has soul and the digital darkroom doesn't. I'd be as quick to jump on someone arguing digital's inherent superiority as a process. 99% of what you see is what the person brings to the process, not the process itself.
-Aaron -----Original Message----- From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: Re: Workflow (was: Bailing out.) Date: Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:27 am Size: 2K To: [email protected] On 3/28/06, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Methinks you're taking this too personally. No one said that what ~you~ do > is or isn't art, and so what if they did. It's just one person's opinion, > one person's perception, one person's feeling about how something (in this > case the digital workflow and process) effects him. If you drove a Ford > and someone said Fords suck, and they hate 'em, and wouldn't be caught > driving one, and much preferred a Chevy, would you be insulted because > someone didn't like your choice of cars. After all is said and done, Kevin > will do what's best and most comfortable for him, you'll continue doing > what works for and is comfortable for you, and we'll all go on doing what > we've been doing. No one attacked or insulted ~you~ from what I've read in > this thread. > > Now, if you want to feel insulted, how's this: your wife is ugly and you > have no taste, your photos and images are crap, you're too short for your > height, and your breath stinks. That's something about which to get > insulted. > > It's not about you, or any person in this thread. It's about how Kevin > feels about a certain process. It is no more wrong for Kevin to feel the > way he does than it is for you to ~feel~ the way you do, regardless of > whether those feelings (yours or Kevin's) are rational, logical, fit within > the mainstream of this list, or are from outer space. > > Shel I don't know. For myself, I'm expressing a personal preference. I like film, but I've never said that anyone who appreciates (not even prefers, just appreciates) digital is in any way wrong or misguided. Neither have I ever said that digital isn't art, or can't be beautiful or can't produce wonderful prints. However, every time I say how I'm more than satisfied with film, that I like the results it produces, and that I like the process (at least my involvement in the process - or lack of involvement as the case may be), someone jumps in to tell me how much better digital is, and what a luddite I am and how can I say that film is better than digital? I've never said that one's better than the other, I've only expressed a personal preference. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
