I think that was a contact print he was working on - the bank of lights was in lieu of an enlarger lamp?
stan On Mar 19, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Jack Davis wrote: > Believe I saw the same show, Frank. Was a surprisingly athletic > exposure performance. I didn't quite get the reason the large bank of > very bright lights in the area. You? > > Jack > --- frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Bill Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> The two most interesting things I learned after viewing the PBS >> show the >>> other evening. Ansel was an accomplished musician, and the fact >> that he >>> considered a negative similar to a musical score and the print was >> the >>> performers interpretation of the score. >>> >>> Also, along these lines, I think he would have loved to be able to >> use >>> PhotoShop. >> >> I don't know if that was the documentary I saw on him a couple of >> years ago - whether it was or not, I'm sure it was interesting. >> >> The one I saw showed him dodging and otherwise exposing a huge print >> in the darkroom, and it was as if he were dancing! Very cool. >> >> Given that he was something of a control-freak (or "precise" - >> whatever works best for you...) WRT both negative and print >> exposures, >> I don't doubt he'd have loved PS. It would have given him the >> control >> of the process that he wanted with much more precision than any >> darkroom could. >> >> Interesting observation, Bill. >> >> cheers, >> frank >> >> -- >> "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ______________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > -- > 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. -- 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.
