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Nice "dodge"
Posted By: Michael McGowan (24.93.246.222)
In Response To: Zone system vs. Tweaking
Location: Ohio
Date: Sunday, 7 March 2004, at 5:52 p.m.
(Henry Butz)
Henry, my point isn't superiority of b/w vs. color or color vs. digital or any of those. It's attitude.
Photographers take a medium that's incapable of capturing everything we see in real life and somehow offer images that can affect people in marvelous ways.
Adams did it by prefogging, adjusting development and all sorts of gimmicks that work. His prefogging is similar to the "flash" used on litho halftones to produce a tiny dot in the shadow areas, so the tones don't block up.
Ultimately, regardless of medium, the point is this: Put an image out there that somebody wants to see. Those images have the most chance of affecting a viewer.
To my mind, artists have produced interesting images since the beginning of time. The mediums have changed, but the impetus remains the same.
In your view, one medium stands above all others. Great. Show us why. Every time you post a picture, explain to us why it could have been done no other way.
But ultimately, I won't be reading that. I'll be looking at the image. Is it compelling? Does it grab me? If not me, who would like it?
I seldom tell anybody which image is taken in what medium. I have pictures from medium format, both b/w and color; 35mm, b/w and color; and digital, b/w and color. In the limited world of the Internet, few can tell the difference. Out in the real world of displaying prints, hardly anybody gets a mix-and-match correct. If they're given no clues as to what the medium is, the most likely guess is that they'll get the 35mm and 120 images right and guess the digital came from 4x5 or larger.
Ultimately, the image we see is the one that's printed. And printing paper only offers us a very narrow slice of reality. Adams knew that. It's why he tweaked and abused his film so much: so he could get a semblance of what he saw on a medium not naturally qualified to capture it.
Guess what? We still don't have such a medium. We're still tweaking and stretching and imagining new ways to capture what we see. And that's a great thing! (Gee, I hope the feds don't come looking at my stock trades for that.)
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