Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]danh@selectsa.com (Dan Honemann)11/2/0011:25 PM > And it touches on some topics recently debated here. Thoughts, as I worked in the darkroom, on some prints for an upcoming show, this morning: This feels like a continuation of the original photographic process of exposing the film ‹ handling the same piece of film which was exposed to the subject - pushing light back through that film - still focusing lenses - still working with apertures and time in the same intuitive manner - exposing yet another light sensitive emulsion - attempting to control values and contrast with this amazing energy called light. And there is something about this darkroom work which allows for such thinking. There is a slowed-down-time to contemplate, and "feel" the process which is going on, both aesthetically and technically a certain immersion in it. Just sharing thoughts. Not trying to say darkroom's better than scanning and inkjetting, which I also find fascinating. It's just that when working on the computer I don't have quite the same feeling of continuity with the Lens/Light/Focus/Aperture/Time phenomena. Rather my mind shifts to a whole other set of experience and intuitions than when working in the darkroom. George