[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yep. Anyone who has studied Ansel's darkroom methodology has to > realize that he would have loved PhotoShop. Do I hear fifty layer > files? Paul
No doubt about it. I do wonder if he would have questioned the archivability of ink jet prints. Perhaps he may have used a digital capture, but a digital projector and traditional black & white paper. Just a thought. It's too bad he's not still around. -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> William Robb wrote: >>> From: "Scott Loveless" >>> >> http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/artic >> le1343516.ece >>> The last line is a hoot. >>> >>> "Do you think Ansell Adams would have used digital?" >>> >>> I believe in the last revamp of "The Negative" that Ansel edited >>> before he died, he wrote about how exciting the age of digital >>> was going to be, and how it would revolutionize photography. He >>> wrote, knowing that he wouldn't live long enough to see the >>> changes digital would bring to photography, but with a curious >>> interest in the new technology, and a wistfulness that he >>> wouldn't get a chance to see it mature. >>> >>> So yes, I am quite certain that Ansel Adams would have not only >>> used digital, he would have embraced it, and I think digital >>> would have been better off for it, in the same way that film was >>> much improved by Ansels's advice to the film industry. >> Yep, I laughed at the ignorance of that line too. At the George >> Eastman house you can see a video of Adams in the last years of his >> life, working with students and talking about his enthusiasm for >> "electronic" photography. At the time, it was analog, not digital >> (basically still video), but he quite openly states that he sees it >> as the future and he's clearly excited about it. >> >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from >> the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the >> directions. > > -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
