Brian, I'd take that a step further, remembering the story I heard
Beaumont Newhall tell about his days at MoMA, when somebody, Ansel Adams I
suppose, volunteered to make a really *good* print of a quite crude
photograph they had from (I think it was) Moholy Nagy, so he did (they had
the original negative in the archive), and it was a "good print" and
everyone agreed it was not a good photograph. None of the snap and drama
of the vintage "bad" print. Which is to say, the worship and litany of
"correct technique" is a crutch and rut -- a convention, not holy writ.
Judy