Re: Nappa Challenge

[WILLIAM D SCHWADERER <WDAVID@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I consider you the world's greatest panoramic
photographer. I don't believe that I am capable of
bettering you. My goal was to illustrate that direct
to digital imaging can produce extreamly high quality
images that are not possiable from a film based
camera.

=> Whoa, I am genuinely chastened!  High praise affirming the respect Liz
Hymens confers on you as well.  What the dickens have I gotten the digital
world into?  Mark, you really need to understand that I am, at best, a mere
apprentice photographer.  I developed an imaging peripheral that amplifies a
photographers skill and I am indisputably outclassed in the skill category.
I suspected I would be, but not at this overpowering level.  Your eye will
absolutely transcend my neophyte experience.  So, to level the playing field
in the interest of benchmark authenticity, you will need to give me at least
a few pointers during the First IAPP Panoramic Imaging Benchmark (the term I
suggested to Liz yesterday).  In fact, I will help you set up my camera so
that it provides the best insight as to what digital imaging can offer the
experienced panoramic photographer.  Fair enough?

As I see it the difference between film and digital
based photography is that film is stuck with reality,
digital is free to do what ever the artist imagination
can dream up. What I had planned to do was to produce
a dozen or so wildly different compositions based on
my original images.

=> Actually, all photography is pretty open to reality elasticity.  It's a
genuine photojournalist concern.

Using Ebay as the measure of value was the first thing
that came into my head. It is a free and open market
place. If we had really done the dual, I would have
insisted that the prints be offered without our names,
in secret by a third party, so that we could not get
family members to drive up the bid price. FYI: I had
planned to cheat by posting my dozen prints against
your one and add the values of them all together. ;-)

=> I think the prints should be passed around to an IAPP judging crew.  Then
their friends and families vote...this one for $600 (film) or this one for
$300 (digital) - which would you buy if you bought one?

Have fun in Nappa! Please do the dual challenge with
someone else. I will sadly miss being there.

=> I will be there on Wednesday, for one day only.  I look forward to
meeting the veterans and helping digital panoramic imaging approach gain
acceptance.