[Jewelry making - Article 00265] - Re: [Orchid] Photography and Juried Shows

[andy cooperman]

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    Wayne, May I ask where you got your information regarding SNAG's
    endorsement of analog over digital imagery? 

    On another note, it is not necessarily fear that makes one reluctant
    to change. On a personal level, as one who gives many lectures and
    presents a lot of images (in the context of teaching) I find my
    slowness to change a function of two circumstances. On the one hand I
    have over 1500 (a low guess) images that were produced before the
    advent and adoption of digital photography. These include technical
    images, pictures of my work, source material and shots of other
    artists' work. I have begun the process of scanning these slides, but
    it is quite time consuming and is taking me a long time. Meanwhile I
    continue to give my lectures old school (slides). 

    It is a lot of weight to carry all these images. But it also allows
    me very quickly to load a few slides in a carousel during the course
    of a class- on the fly- to illustrate a point. (I am sure I will be
    able to do this digitally as my familiarity with the medium grows.) I
    have also had very, very few slide presentations fail. Glitches are
    usually easily fixed and, at worst, disable a few images rather than
    the whole presentation. This is point #2: After sitting through many
    lectures, both analog and digital, it has been my observation that
    the amount of delays encountered with digital presentations is many
    times that of slide shows. Operator error, corrupt files, equipment
    incompatibility, etc. 

    I don't consider myself a Luddite and, in fact, gleefully purchased
    my new laptop (I'm composing this post on it) so that I could
    facilitate the move from analog to digital. I also have experienced
    first hand the harsh fact that slide projectors are going away- you
    have to be very careful to ask for them, no assumptions. But for some
    of us, the move from analog to digital is an affair made daunting
    less from fear and more from sheer work load. 

    One more thing: I just got back from my photographer who at this
    point is shooting both digital and slide film of each piece. This is
    an other unfortunate legacy of the "in between" adolescence from one
    technology to an other. There is a huge difference between the
    images. Even after photoshop adjusting, the digital images don't
    appear to have the punch or depth. This is just my experience up to
    this point and will not stand in the way of my brave march toward
    complete reliance on digital technology. 

Take care, Andy Cooperman
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