Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm surprised to hear this if your prints are sharing the same gallery walls and your prints are side to side with other photographers using much different techniques than you are then the results of those much different techniques; or gear; or format; or choice of ISO's, or glass will show. And you're either going to look better or worse for it. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:51:44 -0700 (GMT-07:00) > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] (no subject) > > Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > >> Art does not work that way. Only magazines and review sites that have to >> earn advertising do. >> Cheers >> Jayanand > > Art is in the eye of the beholder. Where I can reduce the number of > variables > to a manageable set, my eye beholds a difference between prints where the > original was 35mm film or medium-format film, 35mm film or DMR, Kodachrome > or > Provia, and numerous other comparisons. Some others have told me they > perceive no difference, and many more in blind comparisons see the same > differences I do. Some people are simply more perceptive than others. > > When I'm making photographs, I've eliminated the photographer, lighting, > subject and processing variables. When I use different tools, I see > different > results in my prints. I'm not comparing my prints with Salgado's, Tina's > or > anyone else's. The differences I see are in my prints. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > >>