Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > RBedw51767@aol.com wrote: > > > > I would sure hate to think that prints from an Epson printer > would rival what > > I am gettiing from my darkroom. I am far from a professional > and really don't desire to be one or to do exhibition prints. I > have extreme pride of > > ownership after working on a print and finally getting one that > is worthy of > > mounting. I will never posess this feeling from an ink-jet > printer. The word > > to come to my mind when I think of this process is prostitution. Why would you ever say that?...After scanning the neg, you use PhotoShop or a similar program to do everything you would otherwise do with the enlarger - enlarge, reduce- crop, don't crop - burn in, dodge - darken over all, lighten over all - adjust color to make it more "real," adjust color to correct "reality." Additionally, you use the software to "spot" the print prior to printing, so that you get a final print without any dust or gunk anywhere. All of this requires your intellectual and physical input. All of it requires your having an understanding of photography, printing, etc....It's simply using a different medium. When all that is done, you turn the image over to the printer and get a print...Why is that so different from developing the print inside a drum system? Different? Yes, of course. Prosititution? Say WHAT!?!?!