At 07:46 PM 12/11/1998 -0800, George you wrote:
>
>But my B&W printing just ain't makin' it yet. One thing I have learned
>is that B&W printing is much more of an art form than Cibachrome.
That's what I've found too. To paraphrase Robert Frost, B&W is like
playing tennis without a net. With Ciba there aren't a lot of choices:
you've got to get exposure and color correct, but you've got the
transparency for the bedrock values. One can't really say what the
"correct" print of a B&W negative is.
And every one of
>their successful prints is bleached to some extent.
>
Amazing. I had no idea it was SOP.
>Just last Sat at our meeting one member, Barry Sherman, brought a print
>in which geyser steam was a major component. I was quite surprised to
>hear he had to bleach the steam quite a bit to bring out the fine
>highlight detail he had achieved in the print. In short, B&W fine art
>printing is a challenge that Ansel mastered and I aspire to.
>
>George
>
Go for it, George. I got bummed out with B&W and 35mm about 10 years ago.
I really think it is very difficult to achieve fine art quality B&W in the
35mm format, at least when your main favored subjects are landscapes. I
didn't have the dough to make the leap to MF, so I just stayed with slides.
Film scanning has inspired renewed interest. Most people don't like
inkjet B&W prints because the "color" is askew, but I've had lots of fun
with it, although I wouldn't call it fine art printing by any stretch of
the imagination.
Best,
Joel
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