[pure-silver] Re: what is a "work print"?
- From: "William Harting" <wm.harting@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:16:48 -0500
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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