Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Art, Finding the right printer for your work is just as hard as selling it, .....sometimes impossible. I have not seen original prints from Cartier-Bresson but are you sure that he was always happy with the way they turned out? I know from my own experience, and from those of friends, when you find someone who prints it almost right or close to what you had in your mind you will sell your first born if need be just to keep him (her ?) around. Yes, with lots of work and consultation you can get a good print from a lab but it takes a lot of time. Remember, what you see may not be important to the lab in terms of all of the subtleties that you are wanting to show. You need to take the time and teach them how you see. And let me tell you, it is very easy to say and very hard to do. It is a marriage in almost every sense of the word. I can go back and look at photographs that were printed years ago and for the life of me I can't figure out why I did it "that way". It is so subjective and I am a much different person when I made those prints. Listen to an early and late recording of a piece of music by the same artist. You will hear a different "tune" in each recording........and, everyone who looks at your image will also "hear a different tune". The main objective with my photography today is that it must please me. I want that last little bit of control. I understand that many cannot make their own prints but that does not mean that everything fails. It just means that you cannot get that last and very important - for me - bit of advantage for your image. Now, whether or not our images need or should be subjected to that last bit of control is a subject for a beer and a long night. If you ever have the chance to do your own printing you will forever be just a little unhappy at the way someone else does it for you. Cheers, David Medley Whidbey Is. WA USA dmedley@whidbey.net - ---------- > From: Peterson_Art@hq.navsea.navy.mil > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re[2]: [Leica] SCALA, etc. > Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 10:41 AM > > > David, > > Many years ago in school I had some experience developing and printing > my own pictures, and so I can understand and agree with the points you > make (below). But as one who can now afford neither the equipment nor > even the space for a darkroom, I would like to ask you, and any other > LUG member who may wish to offer advice, how a photographer like Henri > Cartier-Bresson (who I've heard did not do any darkroom work) achieved > the magnificent prints that he did. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions, > > Art Peterson > > > ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ > Subject: Re: [Leica] SCALA, etc. > Author: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us at Internet > Date: 3/24/98 8:41 AM > > > ........... the bottom line is that the darkroom work is the other > part of the equation that makes it whole. > > David Medley > Whidbey Is. WA > USA > dmedley@whidbey.net