Dave is absolutely right. For many years I have used Y. K. Bao's little
one-hour shop in Arlington, Texas, even trusting him with my sisters'
weddings. We've become good fiends over my pictures.
I took a class from a well known portraiturist quite a few years ago
called "In Search of the Custom Negative". The premise was that if you
took care to balance the lighting so that no doging and burning were
required, anyone could make your prints (with reasonable care). You can
do this in many instances with reflectors, light subtracting black
cloths used like negative reflectors, fill flash, etc. In practice I
have found that this is possible more often than you might think. And
this mindset is invaluable when shooting chromes. On the other hand, if
you happen by Hernadez, New Mexico, at the same astological time and the
clouds are the same as they were for Ansel Adams, you are still going to
need a cutom lab to burn in the sky on that image. (Don't make a special
trip -- the school distict built a bus barn next door and it's not the
same now.)
Gary Edwards
>I'd say that your best bet might be to pick a lab small enough where
you
>can speak with the printer one on one, and establish a relationship
with
>them to the point where when they're printing your negs, they're
printing
>"John's negs" rather than "Batch 39372". A quick conversation with the
>printer along the lines of "This is what you're getting in the negs,
this
>is what I'm afraid of in the negs, this is what I'm looking for in the
>prints." can go a looooong way towards getting you the results you
>want/need.
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>Rgds,
>
>Dave
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