Re: wondering about photoshop sharpening

OK, I'm gonna be the PHOTOSHOP BAD person.

I don't understand why so many people think working on a computer is easier
than working in the darkroom. They will spend hours and hours dodging and
burning and sharpening in front of a monitor, while complaining about how
hard it is to do it in the darkroom. Why should I sit in front of a
computer for hours to do what I can do sitting in a darkroom for hours?
Some people are hesitant to make the switch because it is not a necessary
switch. It is just a preference. I wouldn't even contemplate doing my
photography on a computer. Computers are not part of my personal idea of
myself as a photographer. Lisa "the photographer" spends her weekends in a
darkroom, with chemicals on her hands and old mixed tapes playing on the old
tape player. Lisa "the employee" spends her workdays in front of a computer
screen sizing images for the web, typing and surfing.

And back to Jean's original question: A pinhole camera can be made out of a
box and a piece of aluminum foil. I'd like to see someone make a homemade
SLR in one afternoon. With the cost of one SLR camera I can make a bazilion
different pinhole cameras. That's one of the many reasons pinhole is
different than traditional photography. And tell your sister that the
tradition of blurry pictures is so old it's not even questioned in the art
world any more, not even when done with a good camera. I of course am not
saying blurry makes a picture good art, but it doesn't, in and of itself,
make it a bad picture. That's just old school art speak for ya.

Lisa

> I've arrived at the conclusion that *any* photographic technique can be
> duped digitally and don't understand why some people are hesitant to make
> the switch.
>
> Just remember to use your best lense and take the *sharpest* photo you can.
> Everything else is keyboard-frierndly.
>
> regards,
> joseph
>
>>> wonder why we don't just take traditional lens photographs and smear
>>> them a little and print them out to look like pinhole work.
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Received on Tue Dec 10 10:48:04 2002