Apologize to the Bully

it happens.

Why do you say sorry to the one making loud, insistent claims, while also being the one with no known claim to qualification? They make many small mistakes; repeat rumors as though they were found on Stone Tablets.

Why you believe them? Because they are loud, everywhere and persistent. They are so persistent that they are given space by moderators of forums. Forums that make claims of their own. They hold the vessel of the true past. Of course, they don’t.

Small mistakes repeated are errors of base knowledge. Edit errors are rarely repeated by those with commitment to their accuracy; by those who value their own knowledge.

The Roger Ailes method: make a statement claiming, or crediting someone else with the statement. Makes it seem less like something you made up. This is a common form of internet forum conversation. “I heard that” — but can’t, or won’t say, out of politeness, or perhaps non-disclosure…let it trail off into their assumption. The listener/reader will fill in with their own sense of meaning, wanting to seem in the know, and important too.

A Few Small Examples.

without knowing how coatings are made, stored, sold, we have another answer.

The name was wrong. So is the method of ‘branding’

and comes the title of today — the person who caught the flaw is sorry to have called out teacher.

This is ultimate gold to a bully. You monitor yourself. You made the error, not them.

All foreign companies sound the same: Foma, Forte, Fotokemika.

DuPont took over Schleussner in 1962 and continued making the same products using the Adox brand name. In 1972 Dupont sold some of the German coating plant and licensed the formulae to Fotokemika who used the trade name EFKE, that’s when the original Adox brand name ceased for films & papers. Film boxes carried the Made under License from DuPont.

Often made “typo” — mistaking the 500K vs. the horizon daylight value for viewing chromes: 5000K

The point that DW was trying for was:”good color meter” — we are meant to believe that is what he owns.

We will envy him his ownership, so we will value his knowledge.

Expanded Reading: Color

5000K is “soft daylight” — a standard to match prints to slides.

D50 has a correlated color temperature of 5000K, D65 has a CCT of 6500K. The difference is the D illuminants are exact colors as defined spectrally, not a range of colors.

Avoid saying K without specifying it is a correlated value. D50 is exact.

Looking at the CIE, note the CCT lines run up and down (magenta to green). A color temp can be anywhere along that line.

Look at one kelvin value on one line. Your color temp meter can tell you 6500K and the color could be anywhere on that line. That’s the variation

Use the hobby boards when you are bored, not when you are curious.

Perfect Alibis

Who do you envy? I can’t show you my work on the web because it is so fantastic ; simultaneously Making judgment of photographs I’ve only seen on the web. cake eat 2

Do they show or do they tell. Their perfect alibis for doing so much talking without any pictures is because only the print matters. That is the answer you are to see. See? Only see? It is so present, so magical, you must stand in awe before it. find a gallery to buy from; hunt but you will not find. The alibi set is so exclusive they have no gallery representation. The gallery wasn’t good enough.

finding gods to follow: repeating their phrases, singing seeking their praises.

Do you begin with answerable questions; do you permit answers other than yours. If you gave up by the 70s, do you have anything useful to say in your seventies?

you can buy the print, but only in person.

I have no prints for sale. (catch 22)

Like the old: we could have ham and eggs if we had ham and we had eggs.

he has to defend his commitment. maybe explain his stumble — potential in youth isn’t enough. knowing the weston’s isn’t enough. knowing isn’t enough.

Of course alternatives are okay, if they are “well printed” — and, anything other than silver-gelatin can’t be well printed. Unless it was sanctified in some way — like from my book publisher.

[am in drafting-mode of a Stieglitz post ]