Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ben Holmes wrote: > >Guido - you have just described my life! I cannot count how many > times I've > printed til the wee hours, washed, dried and spotted my prints, and > walked > away loving the results. Next day, I look at them again, and I like > them. > About a week later I hate them. > > This is the fate of the photographer who truly loves the craft - never > being > satisfied with your results. I have always done this, but was only > made > aware of it when I read "The Print" by A. Adams (our Spanish friend > Jose > Luis called me cheap for borrowing the book from the library, "why so > cheap?", "Buy the book." nag nag nag). Anyway, in the book Adams > describes > one of the images that he has labored on. In his description he writes > that > he "should have" done such and such, or if he had it do over again he > "would > have" done something diferent. I thought about it and wondered why he > didn't > reprint the picture if he was unhappy with it. Then I realized that he > > probably had - several times. > Ben et al., I once read (or heard or something) that every great artist is driven to his/her next work by the failures of the last. Selah! Carl S.