I gave up - threee strikes and I was out:
Scaffolding, North Court, Mission San Xavier del Bac.
Automobiles, North Court, Mission San Xavier del Bac
Dull boring light, North Court, Mission San Xavier del Bac
I don't remember the dates, however. I was the guy with the Rollei TLR. Were you the guy waiting behind me?
Anyone who knew Ansel even slightly, I think, would say that he was open to all new technologies, but that he would have pushed and pushed that technology until he got what he wanted aesthetically before he would use it for his art, as he did with offset printing the poster series. He was one of the first I believe to utilize digital unsharp masking to sharpen the foreground on Moonrise in the poster, which is why only the posters of Moonrise have a sharp foreground, which he was very pleased with. He was also very verbal about his dislike of resurrecting old photo technologies He was all about moving forward.
Thanks,
Kirk
at age 73:
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep"
Anybody remember that fuss about the astronomical conditions being perfect for reproducing the position and phase of the moon in Moonrise a couple of years ago?
I'd like to see some of those images.
Walter,
Wasn't that big to do about the moonrise over Half Dome from Glacier Point in Yosemite?
Seems like I remember it being Yosemite and not Hernandez.
Walter,
I also seem to recall that not to many years ago someone figured out the exact time of day that the Hernandez photograph was made based on the position of the moon in the photograph.
But then I seem to have a clouded memory these days.
I don't doubt that Kirk. Unfortunately, when the talk turns to digital, everyone automatically assumes this means both digital capture and digital printing - two different technologies, related in name only. Whether he would have chosen both mediums is questionable.
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