Previsualization heresy

You seem to be hyper focused on this learning and growing thing. Is the point of photography the process? Or the end result? Because nobody pays you for the process.

Automatic transmissions are faster and more efficient that manual ones. I prefer driving manuals, but at the end of the day, the goal is to reach my destination. Its fine to embrace the process, but everybody is different in what that process should be. I have shot AP my whole life. I would hope that people would judge my results rather than my process.

Let me extend the analogy you created. I spent many years working on my manual transmission skills. Heel and toeing. Double clutching. Using what was effectively a crash box. Operating a manual transmission was fun, and I became invested in it. All my cars had manuals except my Allison transmission truck. But at some point I was forced to admit to myself that dual clutch transmissions gave better performance. And then I went over to the dark side with AMG automatics. But I was kicking and screaming all the way.

My process with camera automation has been similar.

It was a feature of 'Band in a Box' many years ago.

I obviously don't get out much.

Rich

Here's one I made at that time with 'Band in a Box' pre-recorded auto-backing:

kronometric.org/tmp/Home%20Again.mp3

"Home Again" a la Hank B Marvin of The Shadows. Yamaha Pacifica with custom pickups. Recorded on a little Tascam 4-track.

Hey, sounds pretty durn good to me!

Just as good as any music they play at the places I go for seniors' discount dinner Happy Hour. Four-thirty to five-thirty PM. Y'know where you can't have any substitutions for dinner selections 'cuz they're all pre-frozen dishes, days or weeks before with aluminum foil covers on the heavy-duty aluminum foil trays they're reheated in and served.

Good grub, good music. Yessir.

Rich

Weeks old frozen dinners in foil tins is "good grub"? 😂

Thank you, Rich!

😏

Adams was a classically trained pianist. He often compared photography to music in his often mentioned (to paraphrase) "the negative is the score and the print is the performance of the score." He printed about four different versions of "Moonrise."

Absolutely is it almost essential for B&W. There is even a tool to aid in the process for B&W filter - the viewing filter to help better determine the tonal range of a scene. After years of doing B&W one won't help much. However, for someone first starting to stick their toe in the water with B&W a viewing filter can be handy.

Did you read what I wrote about Michael Kenna?

I myself have done several monochromatic series that were explicitly not previsualized.

More than that. There are all the progressively more dramatic ones before the negative intensification, the ones after, and the joke ones like “No moon over Hernandez, NM”.

I guess the sarcasm didn't come through. 🙄

I once spent 5 hellish years of my life in a place where the "upscale restaurants" were the ones that removed the pre-frozen meals to actual plates after re-heating before serving.

Rich