RE: [Leica] some photographs by Bob Rosen

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

I would suggest that posting poor prints has nothing to do with being a
purist. What comes out of the camera, after all, is a negative. A print
is made from the negative, and the goal has always been to manipulate
contrast, tonality, etc. to get the best print possible from the
negative. Even a purist can do the same things in Photoshop that one
would do in a darkroom and produce a good print.

B. D.

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Subject: Re: [Leica] some photographs by Bob Rosen


In a message dated 9/10/03 12:05:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
alex@vanhulsenbeek.com writes:

> May be some more time at the scanner, instead of sending 40 (or about)

> messages to the LUG in 3 days!
>  
>  Sander
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Good advice. I shouldn't be so prolific with the keyboard. The problem
began 
when during a highschool summer I had nothing better to do than learn to

touchtype on my own. This skill has been the bane of my existence since.
I'll try 
to reform. The spinoffs have been short stories, poems, essays, etc.
which I'll 
let my estate decide what to do with. The downside is a lot of
netwriting, 
which has riled some of my friends on LUG. I'll try to control my
runaway 
output. Maybe I could have a hypnotist erase the touchtyping bit. I can
just appeal 
to their tolerance and good nature.

Again, your counsel is well taken. But I shoot a lot of Tri-X and
digital 
digressions as well; eliminating the touchtyping syndrome won't save me
from that 
bad habit.

Re suggestions that I do editing with my scanned prints, here I admit
I'm a 
purist and will not modify images although I have PS on my PC and Mac.
So what 
you see of my prints is what came out of the camera.

Again, much obliged for your suggestion,
br 

  
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