[pure-silver] Re: NOW: Exposing paper was Re: POP with papernegs?

  • From: Ray Rogers <earthsoda@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 03:07:33 -0800 (PST)

I agree with your comments about the incessant craze
for BLACK.
We really did get off track.
--- DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> The only thing, I'm really sure of, Dmax is
> over-rated. A good image does
> not need a solid black! ..... People made perfect
prints when papers reached Dmax
 at 1.5 to 1.7. 

Making
> papers now, which can reach 2.1 to 2.3, has not made
> those prints obsolete,
> but it has provided a lot of prints with too much
> contrast.
> 
> Old printers always knew the value of highlight
> printing. The obsession with
> increasing Dmax got us off-track. Take a look at
> Sally Man to see what I
> mean.

yesyesyesyesyes......... !


                
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