SPE+SIPA+EXIF
Can you see a photograph? Do you prefer the back-story? You know, that stuff the photographer has to write. Their statement. The meaning, the title, the location, the aperture, the post processing software, the tripod, or not, the GPS coordinates, what format are they in– you know all that stuff not in front of the camera, not based upon photons. All that stuff that painters so rarely have to provide. All that stuff that provides time from the viewing.
That seems to be the stuff you must have. Not so, oh so many years ago. Just prints please. If you have to talk, maybe you should think about writing. If you want the photographs to jump and dance, play music, or talk, maybe you could do film. Or maybe, you could write on the photo. Or maybe, you could become a critic, or a curator.
Category: Carp Fishing
complaints … about nothing, sometimes about those carpers crapping in my pond
At Last, No Grain
40 years ago, we loved grain.Well, some of us loved it.We sought it out. Accentuated it. Spent hours trying to get it more pronounced.
Some of us hated it, doing everything to eliminate it, or at least reduce it. Fine grain film. Fine grain developer. Large film. Contact printing. Toning. Much of this to kill the grain.
Odd too, since silver, at least in exposed film, is composed of small particles. This is the stuff of “grain” —
40 years later, Ilford, Kodak, and Fuji have almost eliminated the artifact called grain. They’ve done this while raising the sensitivity of the film to light. Lower and lower graininess with higher and higher film speeds, until now, grain is gone. Too bad that digital has made the point moot.
Now the search is on for the perfect digital image, noiseless.
However, once again, some of us like the noise and strive to find ways to introduce it….
This day from night, light in the night, yinny thing will never stop, never end. It will just keep tick tocking, swing swinging away.
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