>In message Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Richard Kenwood writes >snip > Anyone who has not experienced film processing and printing work will > have missed out on a whole area of wonderment of seeing images "grow" in > the dimness, and the whole "hands on" work that created that perfectly > balanced print....colour or monochrome. Always a problem to get two > identical "manipulated" prints though!
Richard - don't get me wrong I whole heartily agree - I started at age 9 under my bed, covers pulled down tight, a red lamp, a spring loaded wooden contact printer and a pile of little negs from my Brownie! (incidentally I've just 'scanned' the first roll of film I ever shot!) My first job was for Ilford as a b/w printer/ relief colour printer in a processing house, there we sometimes got 'special instructions' with print orders like: "can you please remove the woman in the big hat from the wedding group as nobody knows who she is"! Virtually impossible then but so easy now. For teaching purposes, digital is wonderful for showing the principles of photography so well, but it cannot replace the wonder of being at the 'darkroom coalface'. Our local college is presently agonising over whether to phase out the wet process but I for one am determined to see it stay. Regards, NeilC xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Neil Cooper Photography email: neil at neilcooper.co.uk web: 3w's.neilcooper.co.uk tel: 44 (0) 1548830011 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
