[alt-photo] Re: AUUGGHH... Restarting and new decisions... Need advise.

[Productions]

I've just bought a new digital camera, and it's much better than my 
4-year old one (and not nearly as expensive as what you're 
contemplating).  I've just bought Adobe Lightroom2, and it seems much 
more flexible for photography than Photoshop, though Photoshop still has 
uses.  If you know how to look at a photograph, I think Lightroom will 
help you get a digital image that looks the way you want.  I think most 
digital photographers still try to make photos that look like digital 
photos. And flatbed scanners have gotten much better.  Some of the guys 
at largeformatphotography.info have been using flatbeds at home to 
produce their commercial images.

That said, I still carry around my 8x10 and print in albumen - largely 
to get away from a computer. I enjoy the old process.  But I've also 
gone through a few months where I was injured and couldn't carry the 
thing, and, since I develop in my bathtub, I couldn't get down to do 
processing.  You have to do what you're able to do.

Check out hybridphoto.com.  It's a site specifically for making film 
images, then arriving at a digital print, or digital internegative.

Good luck.
John

David M. Young wrote:
> Ok all... The basic story here is that I'm taking a bit of a sabbatical from my day job (in high tech) and going to devote much of the next year to various pursuits, most of them photographic.
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