Nonsense! Look at Magnum, look at all the great photo agencies that are around at the moment. It's thriving if you go looking for it.
Have a look at the adverts in ei8ht sometime - loads of agencies around producing great work and selling it. http://www.foto8.com/ei8ht/index.html OK, it's not the glory days of Life, but there's a lot of very high quality stuff out there - both film and digital (and you can rarely tell the difference in print, so who cares?). -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of graywolf > Sent: 05 November 2006 19:58 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Another Pentax Story > > Not to mention the millions of folks who have no serious film > background > that are now into photography because digital tickled their > fancy. But > even without the onslaught of digital the B&W documentary > tradition us > old farts grew up with was dying. > > --graywolf > > > > John Francis wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:13:22AM -0800, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Frankly, I believe digital does change the way some people > shoot wrt > >> subjects and the interpretation of those subjects. Bruce > Dayton and I had > >> a brief discussion about that a few weeks ago. One of the > things mentioned > >> was how exposure choices to avoid noise in shadows and > dark areas effect > >> the look of photos. There seems to be more brighter pics > floating around. > > > > Perhaps there are just more pics floating around. > > > > I'm sure the digital era has changed the overall look of > photography, > > just as the Kodak Brownie and the 35mm film cameras > introduced changes. > > But I'd attribute most of this to the effect of making > photography more > > convenient, rather than changes to an individual > photographer's style. > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
