"kpp@xxxxxxxxxx" <kpp@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>I do the same thing in Photoshop, it's annoying though. I am starting >to think that a decent digital camera and regular copy work is better >than scanning...Curtis > > Well, I will try going to the darkroom for that spoecific purpose. > > BUT what I find preferable to computer work is that a darkroom > (especially a club or a rented one in a proffessional store) is far > more socialising than staying indoors infront of the pc. (and i keep > my internet browsing for the internetcafe!). It is the first time i > have melt the seat fabric while Photoshoping, something that has > never happened during my SAT and Uni exams. > > On the other hand i enjoy the company of my club members in the > room, and the Ah! when the dark areas of the print first show > up. And there is nothing more ego-boosting than being in the > darkroom helping two beautifull women to develop their first B&W > film! LOL Ah. My experience of darkroom time is all of isolation, away from the others in my dormitory or my home. When I'm working at the computer, at photography or anything else, I'm more exposed and more accessible; people can stop by and say hi, I can see email, I can answer the telephone, etc. > Honestly and Seriously now, what seems we have forgotten is that > interaction boosts creativity. Just seeing anotherone's work or > talking about it breeds new things. And that cannot happen around a > computer. Can it? Much more easily than in person. I see photos from people I've never met every day, and discuss photography with them. In fact I'm doing it right now. And these bits of discussion can be slipped in between working on actual photos, so they don't even take much of my time. And of course we can sit around the computer and talk about the photos in person, if the people are here in person. And I can take my computer *with me* (laptop) to do things with people elsewhere. All in all, it makes being a photographer much less lonely to do it digitally. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
