Digital negative doubts.

[christopher broadbent]

Wouldn't it be cheating to contact print from a digital negative? I read the posts but nobody

seems to worry much. Though I could imagine a fine arts gallery snubbing a platinum or azo

that sarted out digital.

[stwrtertbsratbs5]

What about dodging and burning? Isn't that image manipulation, too? Is the manipulation "better' if it's analog?

 

Robert

[bobatkins]

It's only cheating if you break the rules.

 

Where and what are the rules in this case?

[._kaa]

I think that unless you coat your own glass plates with hand-mixed emulsion, it's all cheating.

[hakon_soreide]

This is art we're talking about, and then there's of course no such thing as cheating, unless you actually claim that your platinum print started out as a film negative when it didn't.<p>

I know it's still rather common for people - especially in these days of film and digital rivalry - to be hung up on how an image was created, but when it comes down to it, for most it is the end product, the photo itself in its displayed physical manifestation - usually a print - that truly matters.<p>

Of course there are collectors that like buying into not so much the end product, but also wanting to own something that is the result of a traditional process, a tangible item brought forth from the printer's as well as the photographer's art, something toiled over for days in the darkroom to make the optimum end result by traditional means.<p>

I know of some art collectors that collect sketches only and not finished paintings, simply because the sketches say more about the artistic ideas and processes that go ahead of the finished painting where many such things may have become hidden.<p>

[keith_van_hulle1]

We don't worry 'cause it's no big deal.

 

Too much angst in this forum.

[ken_hughes4]

"no such thing as cheating, unless you actually claim that your platinum print started out as a film negative when it didn't."

 

 

This still isn't cheating, it's called lying.

[oceanphysics]

Actually, it's also cheating. Look it up.

[ken_hughes4]

of course in the sterile world of the dictionary it is defined as such, but it doesn't apply to the context of this conversation. in other words, there is no such thing as cheating when it comes to creating art as there are no rules.