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Subject: Re: Advantages 
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Carl Cook at clcook{at}olywa.net wrote:


> So you saying that basically, an advantage of digital photography is that
> it liberates the photographer from the darkroom? What if the photographer
> doesn't feel imprisoned?

Where in hell did you get that idea? I assume this is in reply to what I
wrote. Did you not read it? Was I writing in some alien code?

TOTAL OPPOSITE.

IT RETURNS THE PHOTOGRAPHER TO THE DARKROOM - AND THE DARKROOM TO THE
PHOTOGRAPHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It gives the whole gestalt of photography back. The digital photographer
almost universally can conceive of the picture, shoot freely, interpret and
print or do a slide show or a web site or any number of ways to present
their work.

Now there is no drone sitting at a big machine interpreting your very
personal work in the blandest way. You are liberated from being tied to
having someone else finish what you had only begun.

CONCEPT, EXPOSURE, PROCESSING & PRESENTATION. All are returned in full.

The darkroom is where the image is made from the raw material you gather in
the field. It is the kitchen where the banquet is prepared. It is a step as
vital as the exposure. It has been missing in most people's photographic
experience for the past century.

Whether it was the drug-store guy early in the century who took the roll out
of Aunt Gert's camera and replaced it with another or the ubiquitous one
hour lab, in the democratization of photography, the photographer
relinquished control of the processing step. Presentation pretty much
degenerated to fishing aound in the shoe box for the four by six print and
handing it to someone.

You HAVE access to a darkroom - you should know to appreciate it. You should
understand the significance of not surrendering that part of picture making.
Photoshop and the fume-room serve exactly the same function in photography.
It is where the photograph is finished. It even was once called
"photo-finishing". With the digital camera and the digital darkroom, you no
longer are a member of the elite - the very few who can do the total image
from beginning to end.

How you got the idea that I felt the photographer was somehow imprisoned in
the darkroom just blows my mind. The whole point is that only a minuscule
number of photographers EVEN HAD ACCESS to a darkroom during the past
century of film. Now with the ubiquity of computers and image processing,
the total opposite is true.

Please re-read and read for meaning before you go into the classroom blowing
chunks from what you thought you read.

larry!
ICQ 76620504
http://www.larry-bolch.com/

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