On Jun 6, 2004, at 2:12 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
And, since I mentioned it, and speaking just for myself, the technical info
means nothing and often takes away from the image. Good art should be
seamless. The viewer should only be concerned with the image, not all the
details and work that went into making it.
You are indeed speaking only for yourself. I find the technical information most valuable and quite interesting. If we were all just "viewers" of photography, it would indeed be superfluous. But we're practitioners, thus the methodology is as important as the image.
Paul