On Oct 27, 2008, at 13:07 , Bob W wrote:
Now the art and tedium has shifted to post processing.
The art has always been in where you point the camera and when you
press the
button. The tedium has always come afterwards.
I was reminded strongly of this in my RPS workshop yesterday. When I
got the
first of the RPS distinctions I presented slides, which looked
absolutely
beautiful projected through a Leitz Pradovitz onto a top class
screen. I shot
Kodachrome because I loathed darkroom work. With Kodachrome you have
to get it
right at the taking time, but you know the outcome is going to be
superb.
I still loathe digital darkroom work, although it's much easier than
chemical
darkroom work. But since buying a digital camera, which is almost by
definition
fully automatable, I have become very slapdash at the taking time,
which makes
it harder to get a high quality end result. I must relearn all my old
discipline.
You know, I have to agree with you here. I've thought many times that
my 'visualizing' skills were slipping away, and I was just shooting
whatever caught my eye, counting on Aperture and PS to 'fix it' later.
Perhaps I should limit myself to my remaining film until it's gone.
35mm to 8 x 10. Problem with that is I can't afford to do it except
over a period of time because of the high price of processing and
printing the larger formats.
Joseph McAllister
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