Thanks so much for this. I’ve spent the past year tinkering with Photoshop, textures, Corel Painter, Topaz Impressions and even encaustic trying to bring texture, depth, and emotion to portraits and still lifes. Looks I can learn much from Mortensen and Balcomb. BTW, Adams was even more of a hypocrite. He routinely tweaked emulsions and did a lot of manual masking, dodging and burning while creating his prints. All tasks that were baked into Photoshop from day one.