Bruce Fraser is a local in the SF Bay Area ... I think he lives in
Berkeley but I'm not sure ... so I've met him at a couple of his
talks. He's a better writer than speaker, but it's worth listening to
him speak too.
I've mentioned a request for commissions to Bruce a couple of times,
humorously of course and in way of compliment. He takes it the right
way. ;-)
On Mar 26, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
But beyond that consideration, I find that the vast majority of my
time "in production" is on deciding what I want to present in a
photograph, regardless of whether the capture is a film or a digital
image, and regardless of whether the process of producing a print is
the wet lab or a computer and inkjet printer.
I think that "deciding what you want to present" *should* comprise the
majority of production time/effort.
Agree completely.
My objective has always been to be as close as
possible to the final finished image at the moment I snap the shutter
(while still being *willing* to do significant post-production in the
inevitable instances in which it is necessary - I'm not going to
sacrifice art in the name of philosophy).
same
I don't think there's anything ethically superior about the
way I choose to do things, it just works for me on a philosophical
level and, I believe, saves me time in post-production.
yup. I don't necessarily capture photos in a terribly consistent way,
although I try to, but all my image processing is very regular and
automated to as great a degree as I can manage sensibly. Working a
specific photograph to a presentation image runs the gamut from
completely automatic to many many hours of labor. Whether the image
processing is a wet lab or digital process is inconsequential.
The process of capturing photographs is quite different from the
process of producing them for presentation.
Godfrey
