> Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > > What I've seen is just the opposite wrt to creating strong > > photos and powerful images. > > >From what I've seen of your photographs I expect that the type of photos that > you perceive to be strong and powerful will likely decline due to a shift in > public perception regarding public rights and security. Whilst I very much > appreciate many of your "people" images soon only third world countries will > offer the only great photo fodder in along this vein.
I'm not talking about MY photos, Rob, I'm talking about photography in general. Don't make this an issue about my style of photography (of which you've seen very little and know even less about). Of 30+ years of photography, and thousands of negatives, you and this list have seen, at the most, fifty shots. That leaves thousands more to look at. > > > The overall quality of photographs has dropped substantially > > in the past decade or so, and while digital cameras are not > > the only reason for this, they are one of the prime > > contributors. Do you know that there are people (and I bet > > some are on this list - in fact, I KNOW some are on this > > list) who have NEVER seen a gorgeous B&W silver print > > How does the printing make you a better photographer? HCB didn't print a thing > from what I understand. I didn't say PRINTING will make you a better photographer. I said that there's a quality that some people have never experienced, ergo, they know nothing of it, and their experience wrt understanding the degrees of quality is limited. Don't put words in my mouth ... It was a couple of years ago, for example, that i commented here on the quality of a certain photographers prints, which i saw at an exhibition. I was told on no uncertain terms by a number of "experts" on this forum that such quality could not be obtained with 35mm work. However, those who subsequently saw the exhibit agreed with my comments about quality. Quality is subjective, but unless one has seen the full gamut of possibilities, there is no way that a reasonable judgment can be made wrt to the relative quality of any given work.
