Alex Webb went digital?

I apologize if this is off-topic or hijacking the thread, but I am curious about these codes. Any more information on what other codes represent?
 
ZeissFan said:
Alex who???
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I don't understand the Hoo-ha.

I am very familiar with Alex Webb's work, seen his exhibits / own a book, am very impressed with the depth of which he goes into a subject, and could care less how he captures his images.

If you see his work and dwell on whether he is shooting film or digital now, you missed everything.
 
You cannot be a great photographer unless you shoot film. Film is the beginning and the end. If you were a great photographer and switch to digital, you now only shoot garbage. Read this thread.
 
Five days of shooting and those are the keepers?

Youngstown seems to have a problem with dead groundhogs.

And speaking of dead groundhogs, here's a link to Magnum photos tagged with the keywords "dead animals".
 
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Poor Webb. He did do an awful job at showing some political importance of Youngstown. But of all places, Youngstown? The city is known for being the murder capital of the U.S. I'd say it's right up his alley. Maybe he had a flashback from Haiti, hence is reoccurring theme of dead groundhogs laying in the street. I found a bit of humor seeing it that way, everything else a freshman at Ohio University could have done better.

Digital you say? Wouldn't have mattered by noticing?
 
With the Youngstown pix posted on Magnum alot of RFF guys can take him on. Far cry from the heady Istanbul days. Que paso Alex?
 
“What has influenced me in terms of digital technology is the technique of printing. These photographs are printed with a lambda or light-jet machine, which produces a print on photographic paper but it is written from a scan with a laser. For me what it means is that you have much, much more control over color than in the darkroom. I used to make cibachromes, and it was just a huge struggle. You had to make special masks, specifically to control reds, because reds in cibachrome go crazy. With this technique you make a really high-res scan and I work with a printer to control certain things I do with Photoshop. I make a test print and I go in and say “This needs a little more magenta, we need a little more contrast here,” and so forth. Then I come back after few days and after several proof prints we have it right. For me, digital technology has utterly transformed the process of printing and it has made it much closer and much more personal in many ways, because it is much more like the way I used to work in the darkroom as a black-and-white photographer. I love that. I am really excited about prints in a way that I was not before. It is also easier to make larger prints. This show is all this size, but I also make larger prints for certain shows. For certain pictures, they really get another kind of presence as an object when you make them larger.” (from the same interview with Alex Webb in FotoTapeta)
 
I think that town looks dreadful. How is it possible to find inspiration in a place like that?

They should have sent Alex Majoli with his holga to that place. ;)
 
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