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This thread reads strangely to me, because so many of you seem to equate learning PS with breaking through with photography. I just don't think in digital terms, so it's funny to me.
I do enjoy working with my negatives in different ways, though. Which I suppose is similar to "post-processing". Most of my breakthroughs have been hands-on printmaking: spending more time in the darkroom to get my prints made well is definitely at the top.
Also:
-experimenting more with toning and dual/split toning of my prints, for aesthetic as well as archival reasons;
-experimenting with graded papers in the darkroom and how they can affect my ideas of contrast;
-experimenting with split-grade development. A very exciting technique with variable contrast papers. I've only played with a few prints in this manner, but will definitely explore this until I've mastered it.
-shooting MF almost exclusively and loving that bigger negative.
And I've resolved to continue to take classes and learn even more in 2007 - the monster is never satisfied, it seems! My poor pocketbook!
I do enjoy working with my negatives in different ways, though. Which I suppose is similar to "post-processing". Most of my breakthroughs have been hands-on printmaking: spending more time in the darkroom to get my prints made well is definitely at the top.
Also:
-experimenting more with toning and dual/split toning of my prints, for aesthetic as well as archival reasons;
-experimenting with graded papers in the darkroom and how they can affect my ideas of contrast;
-experimenting with split-grade development. A very exciting technique with variable contrast papers. I've only played with a few prints in this manner, but will definitely explore this until I've mastered it.
-shooting MF almost exclusively and loving that bigger negative.
And I've resolved to continue to take classes and learn even more in 2007 - the monster is never satisfied, it seems! My poor pocketbook!