Sounds like a fun trip!
Isn’t looking at printed matter in books &c deceiving? It’s not really a good comparison point for darkroom prints cause the printer tweaks them just like someone these days. I’ve seen some really poorly printed darkroom images made stellar by mid/late 20th century publishers…
That said I think digital has allowed for hints to be made that would have been really $$$ or time consuming.. enlarged digital negatives… internegatives used to be a real PITA …
<...> added later:
I think good photographs, whether they are digitally made or helped or manually made raise our own personal bars. it's amazing to see in a book or in person something someone conjured, and a great way to reimagine our own work ..
Bookmarks