[pure-silver] Re: NOW: Exposing paper was Re: POP with paper negs?
- From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:28:52 +0100
You misunderstood the technique. As proper use of the Zone System, this
technique is not used to squeeze the entire negative density range onto the
paper. It is used to make use of the entire useful paper densities for the
important image content. Again, the a good work print before starting to
manipulate the print. Otherwise, you're working with 'half the deck'.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
On 12/17/04 3:41 AM, "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Peter De Smidt <pdesmidt@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: NOW: Exposing paper was Re: POP with paper negs?
> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:20:14 -0600
>
>> Since doing this I've found that I have to do much less dodging and
>> burning.
>
> This is what I call abuse of contrast adjustment. It's very easy to
> adjust contrast so that wide luminance range of the scene registered
> in the negative will be printed from pure white to maximum
> black. However, by doing so, the local contrast of the important parts
> of the image is often too low and the print looks boring.
>
> Contrast control and burning/dodging are different tools with
> different effects. Adjusting one so that the need for the other is
> minimized does not make sense to me.
>
> Of course it requires more work to use both in the most effective way.
> But if avoiding work is the goal, then you could machine print or even
> better go digital.
> --
> Ryuji Suzuki
> "Keep a good head and always carry a light camera."
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