Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stick to taking pics Mark, this is the usual Rabiner double talk. Cute and meaningless. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 21, 2016, at 6:08 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > Like Tofu dogs and veggie burgers. > Your better off with rice and beans and if you don't like it go out and > kill > a cow. > I've embraced the vastly superior results and vastly superior workflo I get > this millennium with digital cameras and Photoshop; with Epson printers and > Moab rag papers or just computer monitors looking at jpegs I've put in the > LUG Gallery or other places on the internet. > If there ever was a better time to be excited to be doing photography I > don't know when that was. I'm super happy to be alive now and be involved > on > the ground floor in this burgeoning technology. > I'm sure as hell not dreaming about the so called good old days of film and > darkroom work which went from work around to the uncontrolled next. > If I ever get nostalgic for the look of film I'll go out and shoot a roll > of > film with they still sell and put them in cameras I still own. I think the > look of film will be perfectly rendered by using film. And if I shoot film > and try to make it look like something else it won't work out so well > because film is film and something else is something else. > Film does a great job of looking like film. The resemblance is uncanny. > Digital photography does a great job of looking just like digital > photography. I like digital photography. I have no apologies about the > fact > that I'm shooting, printing and loving digital photography. If I didn't I'd > do something else. Like sewing. Or writing sonnets. > > > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information