[pure-silver] Re: what is a "work print"?
- From: "EJ Neilsen" <ej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:47:03 -0600
Shannon, Yes, I do sometimes need to "work like that", in that I'd make a
small print and then make big prints. I'd usually only do that if the neg
was going to be hard to print, I was low on paper, or I needed to make
multiple sizes of an image for a customer.
Light falls off with the square of the distance; Works for an enlarger just
like it does it a light in the studio. It is a bit crude, but you can use a
tape measure to measure from the neg to the easel; just don't change your
lens to a different lens length. And if it calls for a work print, send a
work print. I think a small stack is easier to cull than a bunch of 16x20's
mixed with 11x14, with 8x10, etc.
You can also measure the light source and adjust it as well to match the new
height. Ilford made a nice little meter for that; an EM10. The big issue to
work out is how to interpret the new image size. Small changes like an 8x10
to 11x14 are not that noticeable, but 8x10 to 20x24 will need more than just
a new exposure calculation.
Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street
Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
http://e.neilsen.home.att.net
http://ericneilsenphotography.com
Skype ejprinter
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[mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of B P
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6:59 PM
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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: what is a "work print"?
Here's the link to the info on the show and the discription of a "work
print". http://www.sohophoto.com/downloads/kk10_prospectus.pdf
I took it to mean that the paper size that we use, just can't exceed 8.5 x
11. So, I guess that the image, if it is quare, can't be bigger than an 8.5
x 8.5.
Becky Lynn
On 11/8/07, Shannon Stoney <shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am getting ready to enter a show for Holgas and pinhole cameras
called the Krappy Kamera show. It's an annual deal. The juror this
year is Jill Enfield.
Anyway, she wants to look at work prints, that is, prints no larger
than 8.5" x11". That makes sense to me for digital prints, but I don't
understand how it works for silver prints. I guess you could have an
8x10 work print where you were figuring out the contrast, etc, and then
make a bigger print after you figured out the contrast, but does
anybody really do that? You would have to figure out the exposure all
over again for the big print, unless you had figured out ahead of time
that the exposure for an 11x14 print is always x times the exposure for
an 8x10 print.
I have never learned this way of working. It's a different work flow.
Does anybody on this list do that?
I can make some "work prints" to send to this show. That's not a
problem. But I'm wondering: is this a more efficient way to work than
starting at the size you really want, with test strips, etc?
--shannon
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