Guy Glorieux wrote:
> 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
>
>
Nothing to do with this discussion but you just put my mind on a
question: In the old times (I believe it was on Gregg's old forum but am
not sure of that) there was a guy signing all his postings with:
"I love the smell of fixer in the morning"
Any idea who was that ???
taco
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