Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] photoshop and the end of the world as we know it
From: "\(SonC\) Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 17:56:43 -0500
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I  ALWAYS understood Tommy.

SonC
(who didn't inhale)

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] photoshop and the end of the world as we know it


> Thing is in a way nothing has changed because in the analog world there
> is such a thing as master printers, I just might be one who can take a
> boring poorly exposed and developed negative of poorly chosen subject
> matter with sub standard Compostion and make such an excellent print
> from it on fiber paper; Amidol, split printing, selenium toning to
perfection.
> If one shoots in larger and larger formats especially when one hits the
> sheet film area it becomes less and less important how high the general
> level of vision there is. One can shoot road kill and from a 5x7 neg
> make a print that would blow away something shot with a 90 Summicron
> Asph apo on Neopan Across in Beutlers of Adriana Lima taken during the
> decisive moment with on the edge Compostion (head cut off).
>
> Saved in the printing.
>
> With these Photoshop masters though i think of the pinball wizard
> sitting in a 5th grade classrrom in front of the Mac on his Desk....
>
>
>
> He's a pinball wizard
> There's got to be a twist
> A pinball wizard
> He's got such a supple wrist
>
> How do you think he does it?
> (I don't know)
> What makes him so good?
>
> He ain't got no distractions
> Can't hear those buzzers and bells
> Don't see lights a flashin'
> Plays by sense of smell
> Always gets a replay
> Never tilts at all
> That deaf, dumb and blind kid
> Sure plays a mean pinball
>
> I thought I was
> The Bally table king
> But I just handed
> My pinball crown to him
>
> Even on my usual table
> He can beat my best
> His disciples lead him in
> And he just does the rest
> He's got crazy flipper fingers
> Never seen him fall
> That deaf, dumb and blind kid
> Sure plays a mean pinball
>
>
> (replace pinball with photoshop)
>
>
>
> Mark Rabiner
> Portland, Oregon USA
> http://www.rabinergroup.com
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In reply to: Message from "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> (RE: [Leica] photoshop and the end of the world as we know it)
Message from "SonC \(Sonny Carter\)" <sonc@sonc.com> (Re: [Leica] photoshop and the end of the world as we know it)
Message from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> (Re: [Leica] photoshop and the end of the world as we know it)