Re: [Leica] Re: NO MORE DARKROOM?

["rlb" <rlb@triad.rr.com>]

Ditto Jim......

Bob Bedwell


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brick" <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 3:20 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: NO MORE DARKROOM?


> At 10:02 AM 5/1/00 -0500, Bill Satterfield wrote:
> >Tina, Pls send me one to. I am interested in getting out of the darkroom
> >too. What
> >do i need to get started right and not have to upgrade later. I do not
have a
> >computer at home. Are there publications that I can read that will get me
> up to
> >speed? . Send me one your your photos too, please.......
> >
>
> I could not even comprehend the idea of giving up my darkroom. It is such
a
> foreign concept. It is beyond my thought process.
>
> When I think of great photographs and great photographers, I think about
> the darkroom work involved.
>
> When I photograph, I think of the subject in terms of a silver image
> immerging from the darkroom.
>
> I've always looked forward to spending time in the darkroom. It is a
> solitary place where you can think, be alone with your thoughts,
> contemplate your inner self.
>
> The door is closed, white light is off, you cannot be disturbed.
>
> You can spend hours working on one image, or hours working on many images.
> whether processing film, anticipating the results, making prints, burning,
> dodging, you have the feeling of being creative. Creative with your hands,
> mind, and soul.
>
> It is in the darkroom, where the rubber meets the road. You have to think
> clearly. Mistakes can be permanent. You cannot power off and re-boot. You
> must be true to yourself.
>
> It is in the darkroom, during quiet isolation, that many far reaching
> creative thoughts manifest themselves. Creative frustrations as well.
> Frustration creates innovation. It is an isolated analog world. In tune
> with the analog human mind.
>
> Computer screens, binary, hexadecimal, and mouse clicks simply do not
> present this opportunity. The opportunities presented are in terms of a
> staff of computer programmers, in some other dimension, manipulating your
> creative thoughts in an underlying and remote manner. Visible on a
computer
> screen, output to a miniature paint ball gun.
>
> Sterile.
>
> Digital camera, 1's and 0's, Bayer pattern, PRNU, linearization, color
> space conversion, interpolation, YUV, Huffman tables, quantization tables,
> JPEG, PC, Photoshop, ink splatter printer, file cabinet. Emotionless.
>
> Analog camera, light on film, silver, latent image, oxidation/reduction,
> dry, loupe, light box, enlarger, light through film, light on paper,
> silver, latent image, oxidation/reduction, dry, trim, mount, hang on wall,
> smile. Emotional high.
>
> The darkroom to a real photographer, is Nirvana.
>
> Jim
>
>