[alt-photo] Re: new website and show

as azuresummer at gmail.com
Sun Jun 12 18:08:56 GMT 2011


One of the better analogues I've seen on APL in seven years of subscription!

Best,
Alex
http://www.zoom.sh


On 6/12/2011 14:06, DDJ wrote:
> David,
>
> I think the people on this forum understand and appreciate the points you're
> making about your "real" print versus a browser-displayed digital image *of
> *that print.
>
> But none-the-less, that is the standard for on-line display of your work.
> (If you've no chance of sex with a real woman, the blow-up doll can give you
> a first approximation....however inaccurate it may turn out to be.)
>
> Best,
> ddj
>
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 12:52 PM, David Ashcraft<davidashcraft at sti.net>wrote:
>
>> Yes, I agree, but...
>> There is no way a web image can convey the full impact of a print in person
>> experience.  Kind of like sex with a blowup doll-nothing like the real
>> thing!
>>
>> The file presented on the web is the same file used to produce the digital
>> negative.  Kinda close but definitely not the same.  I have on the website a
>> disclaimer to encourage the in person viewing of the photographs.
>>
>> Also, we all know this process like other alt process creates unique no two
>> alike prints.  This uniqueness in a fast growing tech, machine world of
>> homogenized living is becoming problematic.  When viewing a print in a
>> gallery the sales person old me if I liked the print I was viewing to buy
>> now, the next print of this photograph might not be to my liking!
>>
>> That said, I will probably photograph the prints and post those when I get
>> the time.  :)
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Philippe Ayral wrote:
>>
>>   When you say "After 3 years learning PT/Pd" we are hoping to see what is
>>> the
>>> result.
>>> *" The negative is the score, and the print is the performance. " Ansel
>>> Adams
>>> Negative or file is just the score - only print show your work.
>>>
>>>
>>> *
>>> 2011/6/12 David Ashcraft<davidashcraft at sti.net>
>>>
>>>   Thanks for the kind responses.  All the photos are from the digital
>>>> files,
>>>> I wanted to put up the finished prints but would have to do so using a
>>>> camera and just didn't want to hassle with all that.  Might get to that
>>>> later.  What is the usual way people are going about this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 12, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Philippe Ayral wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Just a question, all photographs shown on your web site are scan from the
>>>>
>>>>> prints or from the digital files ?
>>>>>
>>>>> 2011/6/12 Don Bryant<donsbryant at gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> I like!
>>>>>
>>>>>> Don Bryant
>>>>>>
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