From: Bob and Carla (bb333@earthlink.net)
Date: 06/22/02-11:41:09 PM Z
Thanks Sam,
Very interesting point! My premis comes from my work where a copy
of the original scan is kept intact and unchanged, not as a crutch,
but as a responsible work ethic. Whether you gain granularity by a
bleaching step, or you permanently change your color space by
correction in Photoshop, it's an act of responsibility to stand by
this protocol....whether it's Photoshop, or ferricyanide, the effects
are permanent. This is another example of the interesting bounderies
that digital options from commercial technologies affect the analog
alchemies that we embrace for our personal art....and 12 times out of
10, I'll cling to the mysteries of the analog options and the
mysterious when it comes to personal work.....but I was just trying to
encourage the scan as an consideration, because I've seen a digital
scan capture detail and smoothness and discrimination of tonality that
was neither discernable to the naked eye, or controlable by
photochemical means. You know that you will probably increase
graininess and lose a bit of filmspeed through a cutting process like
bleaching, but I acknowledge your point! I also have seen your
photography, and it's splendid! Buona fortuna!
Robert
S Wang wrote:
>
> At 5:18 PM -0500 6/22/02, Bob and Carla wrote:
> >Sam,
> > Do the scan before you bleach!!! The scan is capable of capturing
> >amazing scale....it will give you more to work with for making a new
> >negative, than with any photochemical direct printing process. Then if
> >you do something irreversible in the bleaching, you will have
> >preserved an extremely malable image for later options! Good luck!
> >Robert
>
> Robert,
>
> I know. But I won't.
>
> To use Photoshop to fix up things is so powerful and tempting,
> especially when you have some friend like Mark to show you how to do
> it and to scan the negs for you. But, call me old fashioned, there is
> something precious about taking the risk of losing the negative in
> the darkroom, something genuine. Yes, you can do practically anything
> with Photoshop, including a show of apparent spontaneity and chance
> (and I love using the software). But with some of my photography,
> it's most definitely not the result but the process that's important.
> The process of discovery, and risk taking. The Photoshop safety net
> changes all that.
>
> Sam
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