> Never, never, never, ever be a slave to technology. > > Talk 2 U L8R, > Jasper Taylor > > --- andy schmitt <aschm...@warwick.net> wrote:
Jasper, I was a slave to my chemicals last night as I developed some 4x5's in my darkroom. My master controls my weekends and some of my weekday evenings. But my work master pays me money so I can give it to my photo master so he can torture me some more. >> is not!! >> 8*D >> andy Andy Is!! >Silver printed pinholes on the other hand are much harder to control. With >silver if I want each final image to be of the same quality the setup and >recording takes time and effort. It can take me a whole day to produce one >print. With digital it can take me less than one hour (from a silver >negative, that is) and I am assured that every subsequent print will be >identical. If then I want to do some fancy work on the image with digital >it is simple, with silver it is a challenge and time consuming. > >Alexis Alexis And there is another thing I try to avoid, editions. I know it's what photo sales are based on, but I feel even though you can reproduce the same image again and again, you don't have to. Each time I am in the darkroom I am in a different mood, so I am not going to print the same. I never write down the exposure time or the filter or the developing time or any of that stuff. I do what moves me at the time. But at the same time I don't limit myself to an edition of 25. I can print the same negative a thousand times in a thousand different ways to please myself. But I also have never been represented by a gallery or sold a print. Unless you consider the donation print I gave to Visual Aids that sold for $50. And I love time consuming. I have a fear of boredom. Bored is what I am all day at work, so I spend hours writing emails to discussion groups and surfing the web. Lisa
