Re: Photo Magazine Recommendation

["Gary Todoroff" <datamaster@humboldt1.com>]

Good point, George. I looked up the photo page 47 and realized that I had
the same feelings when I first saw the poor photo, giving it the customary
shrug while thinking, "I guess you had to be there." In my magazine copy,
the photo did not even support any advantage to the masking technique -
both shots were equally and totally black in the foreground. Otherwise
"Photo Techniques" is still one of my favorite magazines.

Gary

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> From: George Huczek <ghuczek@sk.sympatico.ca>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: Photo Magazine Recommendation 
> Date: Saturday, August 23, 1997 8:39 AM
> 
> At 09:28 PM 22/08/97 -0700, you wrote:
> >Also, the Oct issue of "Photo Techniques" is just out. The article, "A
> >Narrative History of Color Photography" gives credit to Kodachrome and
the
> >Leica for heightened interest in color photography in the 1950s.
> >
> Yeah. And check out the article by Ctein on contrast-control masking in
> colour.  Look at the crappy photo he uses to illustrate the article.
> Unbelievable.  Good writing, lousy illustration to make the point =
> mediocre journalism.
>    I was so disappointed with the illustration that I wrote him to let
him
> know that some of his readers expect better quality.  As they say, a
> photographer is often only as good as his/her last image.  He has done
some
> remarkable things in the past, some of which break new ground over the
past
> 20 years, and perhaps that elevates him to a higher standard than would
be
> expected of other writers.
>    In reply, he said that he liked the photograph, and that he was not
> offended by my remarks: we simply had different tastes.  Oh give me a
break!
> 
> 
> 
> -GH