Thomas, I agree with you about the prints, even I have never make a print
myself, I expected it must be fun. The alternate way to get this fun is by
scanning and adjusting it with PS, although it may not be as interesting as
print it in the darkroom but better than nothing.
C.H.Ling
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From: "Thomas Heide Clausen" <T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >From both slides and bw, I do find myself making prints. Why? Well, I
> consider the creative process to be extending all the way from
> selecting the scene with the camera through the darkroom and to
> finding a suitable framing. Very often, I find that I need to
> manipulate the printing process (burn-in etc.) to get the expression
> I want from a given scene onto the print, and thus to convey the
> sensation I want the viewer to share. There is no way I can do that
> with a projected slide. Making the sky a little more dramatic,
> dimming a grim shadow, making a distracting highlight disappear and
> so on. Photorealim? Bah, it's not supposed to be realistic every time
> :)
>
> So I find that, much as I like slides, the medium alone is sometimes
> not able to satisfy what I want :)
>
> Ohh...and for making this kind of prints, 4x6 just doesn't cut it. My
> hands are too big to be able to do selective exposure on such small
> pieces of paper in the darkroom, and the effects are much nicer in
> bigger.....much bigger, preferably.
>
> But slides are nice, and I do take lots of those. I just sometimes do
> not think that the process ends in the slide projector.
>
> --thomas
>
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