[pure-silver] Re: what would you attribute the difference to?
- From: "Eric Neilsen Photo" <ej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:51:27 -0500
Janet, Perhaps if you told us what paper you printed on as well as the other
aspects of your presentation we'd be able to better imagine it. Different
papers, lighting etc can all add up to a style, a look and maybe for your
viewer it reminded her of similar feeling she got while looking at pencil
drawing.
As to the whole film vs. digital to print perception...
There are a whole lot of people that have never spent much time in a
darkroom and really don't know much about the media and in the same way
there are many people that have never spent much time around inkjet
printing. With all the associated skill levels of both workflows, sorry for
being so - well digital in that term, great prints take time to learn. And
they also take time to permeate the markets and viewers arenas of
time/space. Did they see them?
As to better? well that is all a matter of taste and exposure.
Eric Neilsen
Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street, Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
www.ericneilsenphotography.com
skype me with ejprinter
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Subject: [pure-silver] what would you attribute the difference to?
Yesterday there was a "meet the artist" reception for an exhibit
here. A young(ish) woman who is loving photography, shooting
digitally, asked me why some of my prints had a look of "almost like a
pencil drawing". She said there is a different quality to them that
she really loves. I was happy.
I've been thinking about that - the difference between film captured,
4x6 prints handed from a send-away lab, and what I make in my
darkroom. Is it in the custom printing we do with everything
involved, or is it honestly a difference between digital b&w and hand-
made darkroom prints?
An issue or so back, in Lenswork, the editor said there is a new paper
for digital photographers to print on that is at least as good as (if
not superior to) what he could make in the darkroom. I was
disappointed when I read that, being the hold-on-to-the-old-ways
person I tend to be. But regardless of whether they can be as good or
not - do you know what she's asking? Or seeing?
I'm pretty sure when she learns it all, there's something in PS she
can do to achieve the same look. But is there an honest and easy
answer for why these prints I made look like they do? Is it the
paper? Is it silver something-or-other? The whole process? I wonder
how someone who knows the inside-out of it would have answered -
honestly.
Thank you.
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