Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike, I have re-read your statement: "I'm one. I've never liked "traditional" color photo media--I absolutely abhor the typical "slide look" in prints, underexposed "for saturation" and looking contrasty and lightless--I've seen hundreds of thousands of such pictures and I'm sorry, but I think it's an inherently ugly medium. Type C prints _can_ be nice, but just as often look "gassy" with sickly color-crossovers. Cibas, although some people love them (Phil Davis does), look ghastly to me. Exceptions I can think of include masked Cibas on matte paper, for instance Richard Misrach's desert fires." About the underexposed highconstrast look, I agree. The "medium" however is slide film (printed on Ciba). You state that this is "inherently" ugly, not just ugly when done incorrectly. It is just as silly as my saying that since low resolution digital printing looks awful, all digitial printing is garbage. Jonathan Borden > > > Jonathan B.: >>>recently you have "dissed" color photography in > general<<< > > > P.S. When did I diss color photography? I merely said I hate the look of > undexposed chrome film. That's a far cry from dissing color photography. > Better watch out, or I'll take you on another mini-tour of my library > highlighting great accomplishments in color photography <g>. >