[LargeFormat] RE: Horseman or Gandolfi?

Sun Jun 1 00:26:01 2003

I use a Toyo 45 AII out in the field.  I look at a monorail and think it
looks cumbersome.  Mind you, I've never had one or had the opportunity
to try one, so maybe I'm not the best person to listen to.  I take
landscape and IR pictures.  :)

As far as digital, I've thought about it, but can't make myself do it.
I just don't feel like I'll be getting much out of the digital world.
Scanning my shots takes long enough as it is.  However, as I don't have
an enlarger, I will try to print out my pictures after I scan them.  I
finally got a new printer today.  Lately the thought of 8x10 and
alternate processes have started to appeal to me.  I would like to see
an 8x10 before committing to it though.

Diane

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Message: 11
From: "Vincent Dobson" <manitec@bellsouth.net>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Subject: RE: [LargeFormat] Horseman or Gandolfi?
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 20:41:38 -0400
Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net

Seems everyone is going digital ---- 'cept me!  They will have to pry my
chemicals out of my hands and surgically remove the enlarger so they can
fit
my body in the coffin. --- Long live the old way!

Vince Dobson
Visions In Nature
www.VisionsInNature.com

<:)<< Silly prices right now (possibly to do with move to digital backs
<:)> using medium format cameras).  >>

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Message: 12
From: "Stuart Phillips" <stuart.phillips@rcn.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Horseman or Gandolfi?
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 21:18:42 -0400
Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net

Are you a veteran? Most veterans' cemeteries have a special area for
oversized coffins/vaults so you could take your enlarger with you.

As to the original point, I scan. But I seem to have ZERO interest in
getting a digital camera. I guess it makes sense for many professionals
but
I certainly mourn the disappearance of all those family pics in the
attic.
The number of ordinary people who will do real back-ups of those files
must
be negligible.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vincent Dobson" <manitec@bellsouth.net>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 8:41 PM
Subject: RE: [LargeFormat] Horseman or Gandolfi?

> Seems everyone is going digital ---- 'cept me!  They will have to pry
my
> chemicals out of my hands and surgically remove the enlarger so they
can
fit
> my body in the coffin. --- Long live the old way!
>
> Vince Dobson
> Visions In Nature
> www.VisionsInNature.com
>
> <:)<< Silly prices right now (possibly to do with move to digital
backs
> <:)> using medium format cameras).  >>
> <:)
>
>
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Message: 13
From: "Vincent Dobson" <manitec@bellsouth.net>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Subject: RE: [LargeFormat] Horseman or Gandolfi?
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 21:48:30 -0400
Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net

I am --- thanks for the tip - I might need the D5 in the next life?

My opposition to digital photography is two fold - one fold best
explained
with this situation.  I often see a site and plan a particular
photographic
composition involving the Sunrise, Moonset, high water flow etc etc.  I
love
the moon as a photographic element in a scene.  Close to me (facing
East) is
a great view of an old barn with a drive going past and a great looking
white gate.  Most important is a particularly unique shaped old tree.  I
want to get a shot of the Moon rising over the barn at Sunrise.  I've
been
trying for this shot for 5 years - I'm hampered by the fact it must be
when
the Moon rises here at 115 Azimuth (+- 5 degrees) at the exact time
required
to have the moon in great detail and sufficient  Sunset light to
illuminate
the scene.  If I could then just have vibrant red washboard clouds ---
naw,
that is just too much to ask or expect!

I could take a great Sunset picture of the scene (perhaps even with the
clouds) then digitally insert the Moon - not me -- you see the art to me
is
in the journey - the effort required to get the shot, not the end
picture.

I just grow sick of seeing (at Art and Craft shows for instance)
mediocre
photographs that have been modified in Photoshop (perhaps with the
"watercolor" button.  Then they show it off and proclaim "I'm an
artist!" --
I beg their pardon --- the artist was the guy that wrote the computer
program.

I have shots I'm most proud of --- ones I've taken years to find the
elements just right - the fog drifting up the river and the incoming
tide
timed just right to negate the force of the river flow and all at the
exact
moment of Sunrise - the incoming tide stilling the flow enough that I
could
get a long exposure off and keep details of the houseboat crisply in
focus.
I speak of "Riverhouse"  I tried for I think 5 years before all elements
were timed perfectly.  The next year the Corp of Engineers made everyone
take their houseboats off of the river.

There is one other reason I will perhaps explain at another time.

Vince Dobson
Visions In Nature
www.VisionsInNature.com

<:)Are you a veteran? Most veterans' cemeteries have a special area for
<:)oversized coffins/vaults so you could take your enlarger with you.
<:)

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