At 09:53 AM 11/12/2002 -0500, Greg Fraser wrote: >I have never owned a digital camera but until last week my printing was >all done by whomever happened to be at the local minilab the day I dropped >off my film. [snip] >I spent a week struggling with the basics of dodging and burning and >filtering VC paper and I've got to say that the satisfaction from clicking >a mouse in Photoshop doesn't come close to the satisfaction from creating >a print in the darkroom. I've been into photography for a long time. I got my first 35mm camera in 1978 and was developing my own shortly there after. To this day, almost 25 years later, I very vividly remember watching that first photo materialize in front of my eyes in that developer tray. It was the most way cool thing ever in my photographic life. I loved darkroom time and I still do like B&W darkroom time. However color in the darkroom is a royal pain in the patuti. 1/4 degree temperature variances. Operating with no safe light. Waiting 20 minutes for the Temperature of your chemistry to come to an acceptable level. Printing a color print and not having a white light to make filter adjustments, watching the $$$ fly out the window because you blew that color 8x10 and would have to do another . . . in total darkness..... When it comes to color, I want to stay as far from the darkroom as possible. Digital is great. I can see on my screen a very good representation on what I will get on my prints. Its a wonderful thing. Having been a professional digital photographer now for over three years, there is no turning back. Eventually I want to put my darkroom back into commission and play with B&W just for fun, but its such a low priority now its not even funny. Rob -- Rob Miracle Photographic Miracles 203 Carpenter Brook Dr. Cary, NC 27519 http://www.photo-miracles.com
