[pure-silver] Re: After sinks, your favourite tongs?

  • From: "Eric Neilsen Photography" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 10:04:28 -0500

If you were processing your prints in a way that prevented you from
achieving quality images then perhaps the single tray is the approach for
you. But I'd hesitate to say that a one tray method will give most quality
over quantity.  It is also a matter of production. Making prints for your
self is quite different than making prints for others. 

I had one customer tell me I should try my best every time. I told him to
look at the price list. I offer three levels of quality; good, better and
best. If he wanted my best printing the quality would be there if he choose
to order that level of print, but I was not going to give away my time to
fine tune his image because I like making prints. 

Cheers
EJ Neilsen
  

Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street
Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
http://e.neilsen.home.att.net
http://ericneilsenphotography.com
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lloyd Erlick
> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 8:02 AM
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: After sinks, your favourite tongs?
> 
> At 02:33 PM 7/28/2005 , Eric Neilsen wrote:
> 
> >Lloyd, I use a single tray method for platinum printing most of the time,
> >but I find it impractical for silver printing. It works well for platinum
> >because there is so much time between exposures.
> 
> But with silver, it
> >restricts your ability to process more than one print at a time.
> 
> 
> If I had
> >tremendous space considerations, I might consider using a single tray.
> 
> 
> 
> July 30, 2005, from Lloyd Erlick,
> 
> I guess photography is all about point of view!
> 
> One of my explicit decisions about how I was going to change the way I
> worked in my darkroom was that I wanted to process one print at a time
> (quality over quantity). I like to finagle all the details one by one on
> test prints, then make final prints one by one with my full attention on
> each detail.
> 
> It's a funny thing, I'm not given to anxiety or inappropriate tension in
> day to day life, but a holding tray full of half-finished prints, or a
> stack of 16x20s in a tray of selenium toner (which I am required to
> shuffle...) just fills me with angst. I suppose it's the perfectionist in
> me; I just know at least one of those prints will get a ding somehow, so
> it's Russian roulette with my beautiful prints ...
> 
> regards,
> --le

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