[pure-silver] Re: what is a "work print"?
- From: Sauerwald Mark <mark_sauerwald@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 05:13:40 -0800 (PST)
I mistyped when I said 'Epson' - it is the Ilford
enlarging meter that I use. It has a sensor, a knob
and three LEDs, a red 'over' led, a red 'under' led
and a green just right.
I pick a neutral part of the image - usually a face if
it is a portrait, put the meter on the easel and turn
the knob until I get the green LED. Raise the head,
then open the aperture until the Green LED comes back.
At this point the intensity of light on the easel is
the same as it was for the 8x10, and all my times
should be the same.
--- William Harting <wm.harting@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> I want to know more about that enlarging meter... is
> it the same thing
> Nicholas Lindan spoke about in his post?
>
> As for work prints, these are what I scan to post on
> the web, if I do
> that, and, as others have said, they are always 8x10
> RC these days
> (since the demise of single weight paper), they are
> what lets me know
> if there is any there there in the image, in other
> words, if the focus
> is where I want it, if the range of shadow detail
> seems to be there,
> if the subject pops. They are usually somewhere
> close to what I will
> expect from a final print. I then make a finished
> print as a unique
> print, usually in a larger size, on paper.
>
> Bill
>
> On Nov 8, 2007 1:59 PM, Sauerwald Mark
> <mark_sauerwald@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > --- Shannon Stoney <shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > Great question! I am anxious to see the answers
> that
> > come back.
> >
> > For me, a work print is usually 8x10, just because
> I
> > find that size big enough to see what is going on,
> but
> > small enough to be able to process relatively
> quickly
> > and easily. I go through far more 8x10 paper than
> any
> > other size. It could be RC, but for me, is
> usually
> > fiber. It is a print which has about the right,
> if
> > not exactly right exposure and contrast, but may
> not
> > have all of the burning/dodging the way I want it.
> > The work print will often hang over my desk for a
> > while (could be months) as I try to figure out
> where
> > to go next with it. It does NOT have any spotting
> > done on it, but other than that, could fall into a
> > broad range of how happy I am with the print.
> >
> > As to going to larger sizes, my usual way of doing
> > that is to start working on 8x10, with a
> relatively
> > small aperture on the enlarging lens, one I have
> the
> > 8x10 print the way I want it, I use an Epson light
> > meter to measure the illumination on some part of
> the
> > image, then raise the head to get the size that I
> > want, and open the aperture to the get back to the
> > same amount of illumination. Usually means that
> the
> > first exposure on large paper is pretty close to
> what
> > I had worked out on the 8x10.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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