Search:

I really don't understand this attitude.:confused: I've seen it expressed elsewhere. I suppose I never will. I don't pay any attention to Kodak's "failings" as expressed by others. I just...

Jay,

Misguided on the basis of *who's* theory? Yours? If so, I confess I'm not familiar with your theory. Because I'm too lazy to become familiar with it, I'll take it as a given that they were...

Just mailed my order for 8x10, but I'm a little concerned that the Canham site indicates that 172 boxes still need to be ordered.

Enjoyed the video. It helps that he seems like a genuinely nice guy.

Fairly competent??? Now that is a classic example of the term "understatement".:)

My GraphicView II with red bellows.

Ridge, Sierra Nevada, C. 1925. I can't explain why. All I know is that I can't stop staring at it.

Thanks. I just read the instructions for Amidol at the Photographers Formulary site, where it's stated that this dye can be used for DBI under a 40-60 watt series 3 wratten safelight. That's quite...

I came across the following in a book dated 1948:

"Desensitize the plates by one minute's immersion in 1:2000 Pinacryptol yellow. Alternatively proceed in darkness"

It then goes on describe...

Not only was Galen a great photographer, he was a world class mountaineer with superhuman strength. Summiting Mt. McKinley in a single day just blows my mind. He took some great shots on that...

I read somewhere, maybe here, that if you have to ask why the answer is almost always money.

Are you referring to Art Wolfe? I do know for a fact that he now indicates in his books which images have been digitially manipulated. Why does he do this if the public doesn't give a hoot? He...

If George really wanted a translation, he'd ask the photographer himself to translate it. At least he'd give the photographer a chance to translate it for him.

David's last post on the subject essentially said exactly that with respect to color nature/landscape photographers. I do note that via another thread, QT stated that nature photographers have an...

I don't think the "cheating" aspect of color nature/landscape photography was introduced in this thread (which happened quite some time after the thread was started) as a digital vs. analog argument....

He said he was sorry. What else do you want from him?

Thank you Tim, you saved me the trouble. The key phrase is: "as referred to in the course of this thread".

Good Grief. You missed the point entirely. Your example has absolutely nothing to do with the kind of cheating that David referred to in his post. Now if you had shown an image of a squirrel...

Stating that technical proficiency is a necessary condition for creative or artistic output does not include any claim that it is more or less important than other necessary conditions that must be...

I agree with you. If I didn't misunderstand what you wrote above, it can be stated this way: technical proficiency is not a sufficient condition for creative or artistic output.

Now I have a...

You probably aren't in the business of color nature/landscape photography. These are the folks with the trust issue, for the most part professional color nature photographers, who want the...

You have to read the entire article. It wasn't manipulation itself that was his complaint. It was the kind of manipulation engaged in by the Pictorialists. What he called "a meaningless mixture...

But David, what about my suggestion that *you* be the one to label your images, not folks who are doing the "manipulations"? TrustImage requires exactly that.

Well, if you believe Strand, you won't concern yourself with that question. "...learn to photograph first, learn your craft, and in the doing of that you will find a way, if you have anything to...

I thought it was brilliant as well. I reread it every so often. He also writes about his dislike of those who focus on trying to be artists with their photography. He mentions painters in Germany...

Has anyone read Paul Strand's article "The Art Motive in Photography"? What did you think of it?

Art Wolfe, the former painter turned celebrated professional nature photog. He was an early digital adopter. His book "Migrations" featured patterns in nature that included animals. Well, some...

I don't think those like David working in the "honest style" claim their work is superior, just different. It's making clear that difference that concerns them. I agree with your point, it's all...

I'm probably going to get hammered on this, but I'll take my chances. Some folks say the issue is trust. If you dig down deep beneath all the talk, the real issue is competition, although that word...

Trust comes into the picture because folks like David believe that the public expects color nature/landscape photography to be reasonably accurate respresentations of reality. If you do otherwise,...

I've alway's wanted to ask David the same question: WHY?

This goes to the heart of Donalds question. Where is the "vision" in photographing an existing combination? To use Donalds example, his brother had a "vision" of a *new* combination and realized it...

Answer: your brother.

Why? I believe Kirk Gittings started a thread about creativity. My concept of creativity is this: to bring into existence a *new* combination that previously did not...

This is why Ansel and others put sooooo much emphasis on "visualization". Through this they are able to say they are not simply reproducing what is in front of the lens. They "visualize" something...

I'm looking to buy a print made a specific way, of a specific type of subject. I'm having a devil of a time finding such via Google. Is it appropriate to ask in this forum what it is I'm looking...

I can fold my Tachihara with either a 125 or a 150 mounted. The 125 is a Fujinon W and the 150 is a Rodenstock Sironar-N MC. Post #3 really surprises me, because I just now mounted both lenses and...

I vote for the 75. I use it a lot more than the 90.

Gary -

Outstanding.

Eric.

Sandy,

What if you use a film like Tmax400 and expose so that everything is on the straight line portion of the curve?

Eric.

Sandy,

With respect to carbon, do I understand you to mean that if I have a traditional negative with a DR that matches the exposure scale of my sensitized tissue, that it will be difficult to...