Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/13
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Gerry-
I too feel liberated the computer. But I still LOVE the silver print and
the B+W darkroom. I miss it. I will only set up for black/white - three
baths of chemistry that are pretty easy to handle and dispose of, and it is
a get away for me as well. I go there, turn the radio /CD player on, relax
and have some fun. And come out with some great looking prints that Cone
can't match. All together - I suppose that's part of the appeal. As a
chemist for 1/2 my education , and a veterinary neuroscientist (and a
photographer the rest of the time :-) ) for the other, I suppose the
chemical process still has a certain appeal, and I know that emulsion
chemists are still hard at work making new and better films. Take a look at
www.eink.com (A company I consult for) -- in their mind, your computer
screen will someday go from pixels to chemistry. Kind of funny how it all
comes around.
But I hear you - I like the freedom of working in the light as well. It
is great to have choices, isn't it?
Main thing -- HAVE FUN - and as I said before, from the snaps of you on
your site, you look like a man who is having the most fun anyone can with
their clothes on ;-)
Ed
>
> The most liberating thing that has EVER happened to my photography is
> leaving the darkroom! Just at the moment I am in the middle of printing my
> entry (4 prints) for the Royal Photographic Society International Open
> competition/exhibition from my Kodachrome slides. I have had work exhibited
> in this before, and it is a great honour to be accepted as one of the 150
> finalists out of an entry of well over 1000. I was simply unable to do this
> in the darkroom, and to control every stage of what I was doing. I have had
> a one-man exhibition of my colour work and have repeatedly sold work for
> very good prices, all thanks to the computer and printer. I, for one, am
> certainly not sorry.
>
> Gerry
>
> Gerry Walden LRPS
> www.gwpics.com
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