Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 robert.rose at mac.com wrote: >Maybe I will be dismissed or ignored like Cassandra, but I want to speak >out against making files from a digital camera "look like" something else, >e.g., some film-developer combination. >I am not old enough to know this first hand, but when photography first hit >there were folks who tried to make photos look like paintings. I believe >that William Mortensen was in that group, and this earned >him the enmity >of Ansel Adams and others in the f/64 Group. >Similarly, I feel that the desire to make a digital file look like film is >misguided. Just use a film camera if that is what you want (and I hasten >to add that you all do a bang up job producing film images). >We should be exploring what can be done with digital that would be >impossible or difficult with film, and exploit those differences to create >something new. We should embrace digital display too, and stop >worrying >about making prints on our Epson printers that "look like" they are silver >prints. >Off my soap box now. Your comments, disagreements, agreements, etc., are >really appreciated. >Bob Rose ================================================================================================================================================================= That is my sentiment also. I think to get the film look, make the effort and shoot film. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Relations University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt