I speak about the process of registration of an image, not about your artistic intentions. What you do with that and how you name it is your will.
I am sorry for your loss Mike, but what it has to do with the topic ? In any case those frames where not changed but most likely undeveloped. I think RF has a special forum where you can get advise about darkroom work.
OK: I'll be explicit (rather than simply expressing my frustration, but in a way that does relate to the topic): there are a lot of steps between the light striking a piece of (previously) unexposed film and a finished print. Many things can be altered along the way, deliberately or otherwise. To think that a photograph is fixed and unalterable from the moment the light strikes the film is either plain wrong, or is filled with way too many unstated assumptions.
That seems pretty fair. It's one of the reasons I shoot film too: I have some great old cameras which I like to use. And they're only useful with film.
In theory I'd like to do that too, or at least try it again (it has been many years). In practice I don't have the space to set that up, nor (more importantly) the time and inclination to learn the requisite skills (even back when I did some stuff in the darkroom I can't say I was any good). So I'll stick with my hybrid process of developing then scanning. I'm glad you enjoy your darkroom, though.
I like and use both film and digital, so I don't know whether I have no dogs or two dogs in this fight. My preference would be not to fight.
That's not really my experience, or perhaps some condescension is there but I've chosen not to notice. My stock answer is something like "oh, I use digital too, but I enjoy using my wonderful old cameras and lenses and, besides, I get results I like better in black and white using film." If questioned further on the last part (and I have been, once or twice) I find it easiest to simply say "Well, if I were better with Photoshop I might be able to get black and white that I like just as well from digital, but that's time I'd rather use to take photos." It works for me (even if the bit about black and white requires a much more complicated answer than I feel like giving.)
Where I am lying ? I am just stating my opinion. I might be wrong, but first you have to prove it. So far I heard that I am liar or stupid. Thank you. That is a bashing. I think it comes from being contrary to other's people believes. I laid out my bases for such a opinion, so far I am dismissed by statement of very vague substance.
Understand.
