Re: digtal lightroom

I met Ansel Adams, in his home, in 1973 with my college photo club. He was very enthusiastic about the "new" SX70 by Dr Land. He would have loved digital imaging if it would help him get the prints he wanted. AA died in 1984.
Richard Heather

Jan Hinderson wrote:

> For me there is no way back to the Dark(room) Ages. I began with pinhole photography three years ago, and at the same time I began working with the digital lightroom.
> The simplicity and playfullness of pinhole photography is a parallell to how to work with the pictures on the computor screen (A bit more contrasty? 15 per cent, or 25? No, lets make it 20) Instead of testing and working for hours in the darkness and at the same time use chemicals that are bad for the environment. I don´t think I had begun with colour prints if I had to do it in the darkroom.
> I print my pinholes with inkjet on water colour paper (akvarellpapper) which I think gives the pictures more life than the glossy and flat photo papers.
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> Okej, sometimes I can be a bit nostalgic about fine art printing, like selenium toning and double exposure baths - but that is a craft that will survive on the margin, like other old fashioned crafts have survived because of entusiasts who like the old methods. In an interview I once read with the traditional photography icon Ansel Adams he said that if he was young today (this was in the late 80:s) he would rather work with video. That was a bit shocking for me then, when I tried to learn the zone system and make landscape photography in black and white with a 5x7 wooden view camera.
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> Jan Hinderson
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Received on Sun Jul 1 23:06:11 2001