Comments on: The Good, the Bad, and the Iffy http://forestrat.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/the-good-the-bad-and-the-iffy/ rattus in silvam Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:33:21 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Bernie Kasper http://forestrat.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/the-good-the-bad-and-the-iffy/#comment-1886 Bernie Kasper Tue, 27 May 2008 03:41:09 +0000 http://forestrat.wordpress.com/?p=238#comment-1886 Great shots Mark,I usually let things set for a little while before I work with them, almost like good chili !! Great shots Mark,I usually let things set for a little while before I work with them, almost like good chili !!

]]> By: suburbanlife http://forestrat.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/the-good-the-bad-and-the-iffy/#comment-1885 suburbanlife Mon, 26 May 2008 15:57:48 +0000 http://forestrat.wordpress.com/?p=238#comment-1885 Hi! I really like the step-up the rectangle quality of the second photo, and the horizontals working so subtly in the third photo. These are remarkable drawings-with-light, and I'm put in mind of a graphite powder drawing where the lights are pulled out with erasers as a drawing tool. There is something so pleasing about how the threads of water embroider your images, really lovely and satisfactory. I used to make black and white photos, develop the negatives and print contact sheets from them, then select the photos I's play with and print. You are so right, the smell of the chemicals is acrid, but pleasant and sets one to anticipating many fine hours spent in the dark-room. And there is something, forever magical in seeing the image come to be in the developer bath, and the excitement that arises in waiting for the correct level of image development before plunging the paper in the fixer. Somehow beats the computer experience. But the computer method is more sure-fire and gives quick rewards. i suspect, because that process is so sped up, the character of decision-making is different. The hand printed photo demands concentrated attention, almost a meditative state, and to me at least is far more satisfying in those hard-won results. G Hi! I really like the step-up the rectangle quality of the second photo, and the horizontals working so subtly in the third photo. These are remarkable drawings-with-light, and I’m put in mind of a graphite powder drawing where the lights are pulled out with erasers as a drawing tool. There is something so pleasing about how the threads of water embroider your images, really lovely and satisfactory.
I used to make black and white photos, develop the negatives and print contact sheets from them, then select the photos I’s play with and print. You are so right, the smell of the chemicals is acrid, but pleasant and sets one to anticipating many fine hours spent in the dark-room. And there is something, forever magical in seeing the image come to be in the developer bath, and the excitement that arises in waiting for the correct level of image development before plunging the paper in the fixer. Somehow beats the computer experience. But the computer method is more sure-fire and gives quick rewards. i suspect, because that process is so sped up, the character of decision-making is different. The hand printed photo demands concentrated attention, almost a meditative state, and to me at least is far more satisfying in those hard-won results. G

]]> By: forestrat http://forestrat.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/the-good-the-bad-and-the-iffy/#comment-1884 forestrat Mon, 26 May 2008 12:39:01 +0000 http://forestrat.wordpress.com/?p=238#comment-1884 K, People in Indiana and California (where I lived for a while) always gave me trouble about saying "couple three". I also put "eh" on the end of some of my sentences like a Canadian - mostly when speaking not so much when writing. I was just in North Carolina for a cousin's wedding and of course the north and the south sides of the family always tease each other about our different expressions for things. English certainly is a flexible language. I only keep one copy of my reject images on regular good quality DVDs. The keepers I always always always keep at least two copies. Either on two different hard drives or on gold plated DVDs and a hard drive. In practice I usually have three copies; two on hard disks and one on DVD. I would normally erase the rejects, but I have a friend that runs a museum and he gets all freaked out when digital photographers talk about destroying images. I guess they could be become historically important if I happen to shoot something that gets lost over time even if the images aren't the best. MDW K,

People in Indiana and California (where I lived for a while) always gave me trouble about saying “couple three”. I also put “eh” on the end of some of my sentences like a Canadian – mostly when speaking not so much when writing. I was just in North Carolina for a cousin’s wedding and of course the north and the south sides of the family always tease each other about our different expressions for things. English certainly is a flexible language.

I only keep one copy of my reject images on regular good quality DVDs. The keepers I always always always keep at least two copies. Either on two different hard drives or on gold plated DVDs and a hard drive. In practice I usually have three copies; two on hard disks and one on DVD.

I would normally erase the rejects, but I have a friend that runs a museum and he gets all freaked out when digital photographers talk about destroying images. I guess they could be become historically important if I happen to shoot something that gets lost over time even if the images aren’t the best.

MDW

]]> By: forestrat http://forestrat.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/the-good-the-bad-and-the-iffy/#comment-1883 forestrat Mon, 26 May 2008 12:16:03 +0000 http://forestrat.wordpress.com/?p=238#comment-1883 fencer, I guess because of my computer background I am much more organized about my digital pics than I was when I used film. Back then I often had rolls of film hanging around waiting to be developed until I forgot what was on them. MDW fencer,

I guess because of my computer background I am much more organized about my digital pics than I was when I used film. Back then I often had rolls of film hanging around waiting to be developed until I forgot what was on them.

MDW

]]> By: lookingforbeauty http://forestrat.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/the-good-the-bad-and-the-iffy/#comment-1878 lookingforbeauty Sun, 25 May 2008 17:47:07 +0000 http://forestrat.wordpress.com/?p=238#comment-1878 I consider you a fine writer as well as a fine photographer, so I had to chuckle when I saw your phrase, "It might take a couple three days..." which is just the way we speak and perfectly understandable but grammatically hard to parse and totally colloquial. I thought how someone learning the language would be baffled by that phrase. It would be completely impossible to find something in the dictionary to help them out. It's like secret code! It made me smile. But that's not the point. As all of us digital camera, photographer aficionados are plagued with too many pictures and how to categorized them, weed them out and store them, I was interested in your methodology. I just about crashed my computer a month or so ago because I had overloaded it with pictures. I spent hours taking out the chaff. I tend to keep even bad pictures (fuzzy, poor lighting, not well cropped, taken at to far a distance, etc. etc. because they might become fodder, information, for my paintings. I don't really trust the discs. They can go bad, apparently, and though I couldn't really remember individually the 30,000 plus pictures I had stored on C drive, I wouldn't want to lose one of them to a computer crash! I've been rather busy with some business deadlines lately so haven't been writing. It was a treat to read you this morning and have this opportunity to think about your forest imagery. I understand Fencer's attraction to photo number two. It really does have excellent flow for the eye, but I'm fascinated with the first one, how the water goes almost milky as it runs off the rounded surface of the rock edge. The third has a similar quality, but the rock isn't nearly as evident - it's more implied. As always, I've enjoyed the post. With thanks for bringing a bit of beauty to the screen. K I consider you a fine writer as well as a fine photographer, so I had to chuckle when I saw your phrase, “It might take a couple three days…” which is just the way we speak and perfectly understandable but grammatically hard to parse and totally colloquial. I thought how someone learning the language would be baffled by that phrase. It would be completely impossible to find something in the dictionary to help them out. It’s like secret code! It made me smile.
But that’s not the point. As all of us digital camera, photographer aficionados are plagued with too many pictures and how to categorized them, weed them out and store them, I was interested in your methodology. I just about crashed my computer a month or so ago because I had overloaded it with pictures. I spent hours taking out the chaff. I tend to keep even bad pictures (fuzzy, poor lighting, not well cropped, taken at to far a distance, etc. etc. because they might become fodder, information, for my paintings. I don’t really trust the discs. They can go bad, apparently, and though I couldn’t really remember individually the 30,000 plus pictures I had stored on C drive, I wouldn’t want to lose one of them to a computer crash!
I’ve been rather busy with some business deadlines lately so haven’t been writing. It was a treat to read you this morning and have this opportunity to think about your forest imagery.
I understand Fencer’s attraction to photo number two. It really does have excellent flow for the eye, but I’m fascinated with the first one, how the water goes almost milky as it runs off the rounded surface of the rock edge. The third has a similar quality, but the rock isn’t nearly as evident – it’s more implied.
As always, I’ve enjoyed the post. With thanks for bringing a bit of beauty to the screen.
K

]]> By: fencer http://forestrat.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/the-good-the-bad-and-the-iffy/#comment-1876 fencer Sun, 25 May 2008 07:48:33 +0000 http://forestrat.wordpress.com/?p=238#comment-1876 My system is to leave my occasional photos in the camera until the next time I go out and discover I haven't downloaded the old ones yet... Still keep too many lousy ones, got to go through the archives more ruthlessly. I really like your second photo, how the cascades lead your eye through... Regards My system is to leave my occasional photos in the camera until the next time I go out and discover I haven’t downloaded the old ones yet… Still keep too many lousy ones, got to go through the archives more ruthlessly.

I really like your second photo, how the cascades lead your eye through…

Regards

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