Of course this is a waste of time. But you are the one "not getting
it". The fact that you have an opinion and feel a certain way about
various photographic processes is not the issue.
Expressing your "person perception and feeling" in such a way as to
disparage other people's passion and feeling is the issue, whether
you intend your statement to be that or not.
There is art in photography. Photography, the capture of scenes with
camera and the rendering of images, both print and otherwise, to
present those captures, is achieved with various technologies which
are independent of the art. A photographer who engages the art
appreciates it regardless of the technology of the process, and
regardless of which process she/he finds the most compelling for the
production of their art.
To say "I prefer this way of producing art" is good. To say "I prefer
this way of producing art because the other way is lesser" is
insulting to the people who prefer the other way.
Do you get it now? Why is it ok for Kevin to make such a statement
because he agrees with you and not ok for Aaron to be insulted
because he doesn't agree with Kevin?
Godfrey
On Mar 28, 2006, at 5:11 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Aaron, you, and others, don't get it. It's about personal
perception and
feeling, which doesn't have to conform to ~your~ logic. There are
those
who take a very pragmatic view of the digital world and what it
offers/doesn't offer, and there are others who feel things more
emotionally
or subjectively. I have a hard time grasping why there have been
almost
200 messages in this thread, which will neither resolve anything
nor change
anything. We all have our preferences - Kevin has his, some of us
understand it better, or differently, than others - so be it.
Let's wrap this up and move on to a subject from which we can learn
and
grow as photographers and equipment fondlers ;-))
Shel
[Original Message]
From: Aaron Reynolds
Kevin Waterson wrote:
allow me to finish
If you paint with light.......... you use an enlarger.
The painting with light does not finish with the camera exposure.
Mudh more is done in the darkroom.
This is what digital removes. Yes, you can fiddle with pixels all
you
like
and change iso and white balance etc but it is not light, it is
binary.
Um, what's the difference between a pixel and a grain of silver?
Both
are highly technical processes, and I still fail to see how one has
magic where the other does not.
I understand the feeling of people who work with computers all day
that
they don't want to work with computers on their free time, but the
feeling is the same for those who work in the darkroom all day. The
darkroom is not an inherently magical place -- it is what you bring
into it. The computer is the same.
