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Preface
Photography attracts creative problem solvers. Masters such as W. Eugene Smith, Jerry
Uelsmann, and Ansel Adams worked with more technical aces up their sleeves than a
riverboat gambler. Their ingenuity and photographic prowess inspired this book.
If you were able to see an original contact print for Adams's "Moonrise, Hernandez," you'd
realize that the raw photograph he took in 1941 looked much different from subsequent
enlargements hanging on museum walls years later. By Adams's own admission, it was a
difficult negative to print. He masked certain areas and intensified others. What is arguably Ansel
Adams's most acclaimed picture required every ounce of his talent and creative problem solving.
In other words, he hacked the heck out of it.
Our tools are different now. Instead of an 8" 10" view camera, many photographers are toting
pocket-sized digicams. What was once the red glow of a darkroom safelight has been
replaced by the cool, white radiance of an LCD computer monitor.
I'm one of those heretics who believe that digitizing the photographic process has
strengthened, not weakened, the medium. The practice of making creative imagery is more
accessible to more people than ever. Access to innovation is what this book is all about.
Digital photography brings out the most wonderful things in people. An otherwise
conservative businessman will shoot with carefree abandon when a digital camera is placed in his
hands. Self-conscious teenagers transform into rock stars in front of a zoom lens, and senior
citizens become instant and adept historians.
Digital photography encourages you to take risks. If it doesn't work out, erase it before
anyone knows. The path to photographic success is littered with discarded pictures that no
one ever saw.
I hope this book helps you take lots of pictures and that you find things here that you would
never have dreamed of trying. Nothing could make me happier than to hear that you took a
creative risk and ultimately succeeded. If that happens, please write me at
dstory@storyphoto.com and tell me all about it.
Most of us will never enjoy the acclaim of W. Eugene Smith, Jerry Uelsmann, and Ansel
Adams. That isn't the point. If we can satisfy our own creative yearning, and possibly touch
the hearts of others along the way, then this endeavor is a success.
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