You definitely miss out on something, if you have never tried
darkroom work. You should give it a go sometimes, it is at least as
fun as taking pictures...and at least as time-consuming :)
As for scanning and doing the image manipulation digitally, I have
never really been happy with that. Probably my scanner is not quite
up to the task (CanoScan FS2710, I think), and probably I am not
quite up to the task either - it is a completely different way of
working, I think, when you are used to darkroom work.
I know that it is possible, for skilled people, to do great
manipulations on scanned slides. I just do not seem to have the
required skills. Anyways, I enjoy standing in the darkroom, and since
I am mostly in photography to have fun, I pick the way that I enjoy
the most...:)
Besides, and this is something that digital can never give, the
feeling of having spent a long time getting a print "just right" with
masking and afterburning and all, and then see the image slowly
emerge in the developer...it's almost a meditative process to me :)
But you just reminded me...I have a pile of slides from my recent
trip to Hawaii, that I have not yet projected. I guess there will be
after-dinner entertainment in that tonight :)
--thomas
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:06:05 +0800
"C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thomas, I agree with you about the prints, even I have never make a
> print myself, I expected it must be fun. The alternate way to get
> this fun is by scanning and adjusting it with PS, although it may
> not be as interesting as print it in the darkroom but better than
> nothing.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Heide Clausen" <T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >
> > >From both slides and bw, I do find myself making prints. Why?
> > >Well, I
> > consider the creative process to be extending all the way from
> > selecting the scene with the camera through the darkroom and to
> > finding a suitable framing. Very often, I find that I need to
> > manipulate the printing process (burn-in etc.) to get the
> > expression I want from a given scene onto the print, and thus to
> > convey the sensation I want the viewer to share. There is no way
> > I can do that with a projected slide. Making the sky a little
> > more dramatic, dimming a grim shadow, making a distracting
> > highlight disappear and so on. Photorealim? Bah, it's not
> > supposed to be realistic every time:)
> >
> > So I find that, much as I like slides, the medium alone is
> > sometimes not able to satisfy what I want :)
> >
> > Ohh...and for making this kind of prints, 4x6 just doesn't cut
> > it. My hands are too big to be able to do selective exposure on
> > such small pieces of paper in the darkroom, and the effects are
> > much nicer in bigger.....much bigger, preferably.
> >
> > But slides are nice, and I do take lots of those. I just
> > sometimes do not think that the process ends in the slide
> > projector.
> >
> > --thomas
> >
>
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