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[OM] Re: OT: B&W photo Site and musing

Subject: [OM] Re: OT: B&W photo Site and musing
From: Joel Wilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:04:52 -0600
On 1/17/06, Tim Hughes <timhughes@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://www.pbase.com/annapagnacco/a_world_in_black_and_white
>
>   This photographer really makes me want to get back to some B&W.
>   An OM with Delta 100 on a tripod can still be printed to enourmous size 
> compared with digital. This site really makes you rethink.
>
>   I was thinking the other day with demise of silver film, it is going to be 
> rare to have quality silver prints. In a hundred years if you print B&W Ag 
> yourself now, your heirs will likely be able to make a fortune from your 
> artwork, just from a collectible scarcity point of view, apart from the 
> artistic value!
>
>   This is a bit like Ansel Adams who really mass produced his work in a big 
> way from contact prints, but even over the last 25 years his sets of prints 
> have gone from ~$100/set to many, many thousands.
>
>   Tim Hughes

The one photo I saw that told the camera used was shot with a D100! 
The photos look like there is heavy use of PS channel mixer.  (Nothing
wrong with that ... )  I like the look a lot.

Joel W.
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