Originally Posted by
jnantz
naaaah ... maybe some people think it's something people like atget did, but he was shooting dry plates, and he might have developed under a red light by inspection with a strong, active print/plate developer, who knows, it wasn't fancy that's all I know.. I mean I worked for someone who was trained in the 1920s/30s and things she learned weren't fancy or magic bullets, it was just developing film and making prints, and when I worked for her she had 60 years working nearly 7 days a week experience ... I think you are right though a lot of people look for magic bullets and they dont' realize there is no such thing. the only magic bullet is experience, and lots of it so one knows how their film and paper and camera/lens/shooting technique works in concert.
people think there are short cuts "I want to have my prints look like "this" ( pointing to uploading referring to some random or obscure technique someone has been using for 30 or 60 years who knows his / her technique backwards and forwards ) thinking that some random person on the internet who might have an inkling of what said person does after reading a 2 sentence 10 word explanation in some article that generalized the procedure ... and then they get soured because their images don't look the same.
I got into a row with some guy who was a retired chemist once, who had been using "caffneol" for a few months and claimed he was an "expert" .. at the time I had used it for 4 years, processed thousands of sheets and rolls of film, and paper negatives with it and used it EVERY DAY, and I was no expert, and still nearly 20 years later am no expert in anything. once one realizes they are just a student it becomes a lot easier to get that the more you learn, the more you realize you know nothing .. of course he called me a fraud .. whatever, he was probably just some 13 year old girl in her parent's basement poaching her neighbor's WIFI catfishing people on photo forums .. there's a lot of that, SSDD..
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