Re: Digital Pinhole Was: Long live WPPD 2009!

Ha..! Haaa..!

The good news is that I will be doing a couple of hotel-room giant pinholes
in the next couple of weeks.
I need to build a large enough corpus of these images to be able to do a
significant exhibition in 2009 or 2010.

With that in mind and the constraints of securing the appropriate location,
I really have to spend a lot of time on the
WHAT, WHY, HOW and WHEN of each exposure.

I guess this is what is called pre-visualisation in our photo textbooks.
It's really become a second nature for me
and it's still central to whatever digital-pinhole work I may do
(don't worry... it's only a small quantity...! I don't like
digital-pinholin'!)
With this in mind, for instance, my WPPD picture was completely determined
in my mind beforehand
but it did take several pictures before I was satisfied
because I still only have limited control over the digital pinhole camera.

All in all, I have to say that I agree with you, Taco.
It would be very unfortunate if digital pinholin'
led pinholers to stop worrying about W, W, H and W because they can make
1000 images on their memory card.
It would be an even greater misfortune for them
if they forgot the smell of darkroom chemistry and the magic of processing a
paper negative...

Best,

Guy

2008/6/3 Wolfgang Thoma <wolfgang@thoma.be>:

> Guy Glorieux wrote:
>
>> Hey Taco,
>>
>> Glad you got overruled on digital pinhole... -:)
>> My submission was digital pinhole...
>> http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/2008/index.php?id=327
>>
>> I agree that *"digital pinhole" is a conceptual aberration*.
>> and so is digital photography.
>>
>> But they both exist and they offer a wide spectrum of possibilities
>>
>> The debate is open!
>>
>>
>>
> That's exactly the point, Guy:
> "(digital) offers a wide spectrum of possibilities"
> Where a paper negative pinholer has ONE shot and a film pinholer with 120
> film 8 - 12, a digital pinholer can shoot 250 tol 1000 (depending on his
> memory card) in the "LOMO STYLE" (just point from the hip and shoot)
without
> any thinking or reflections WHAT, WHY, HOW etc and then select just the one
> of the two thousand that was the best (or not so bad as the others). Just
> compare that with a conventional slide film lens photographer who has to
> THINK in forehand about the W, W & H for not spoiling precious film. Can
> you imagine me running araund on WPPD with 2000 one shot cardboard boxes?
> Exactly you with your Montreal hotel room pinhole (which I admire)
> disappoint me with your new mind/opinion
> And now the debate can really start ;-)
>
> taco
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