Re: [Largeformat] Re: Photo 101 - Class 25 - Incident meters

[wd1346@airmail.net]

I had occasion to talk to a female photographer friend of mine the 
other day.  She shoots cowboys and rodeos and such and makes prints 
herself.  She has had success at doing this and has a fairly good 
business going.  However, she lamented to me that a next door 
nieghbor questioned why she spent so much time in the darkroom when 
he can do everything she can do and more on his Mac.  He said she was 
a dinosaur and that her world was going away and she should not waste 
her time.

I told her that if I had a print of hers and a print of his.....hers 
would be more valuable, and in my opinion the truer art.  Of course 
that is a point for deep debate.  I see it like painting and 
photography.  It is just a technical evolution and photography, film, 
and the darkroom are not going away.  (We still have many many 
painters.)  Isn't it wonderful how popular B&W prints are now!

--Bill Diebold