Digital BW, The Print

Don't blame you. I'm in the same boat. I must say though, that most of the prints I've made with minimal Lightroom intervention and only  marginal understanding of the technical side ... are fine. 
Lew

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From: "Rusty Sterling" <rustysterling@...>
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:33:27 
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Subject: [Digital BW] Talk about intimidating

I made a conscious decision at the beginning of this year to focus exclusively (except for client needs) on BW photography. Printing certainly has been an issue, although the Epson R2880 with ABW has helped a lot in that regard.

So now I have read all of the Paul Roark articles on his site and Clayton Jones articles. I not only feel intimidated by the technology but thoroughly confused by some of the procedures.

Obviously some of this stuff was written a few years ago and there have been some changes. When I read some of the articles and look at the screens on my Mac some things just are not there as described. So I try and extrapolate what I can and try and find something equivalent -- not always successfully.

Meantime, I'm using my old R200 to print BO until my MIS inksets arrive. I get some banding that I'm not happy with but you have to look very closely to see it. In general, though, thanks to some settings outlined by Jones, I'm seeing better results both on the R200 and 2880.

Nonetheless, I feel a lot of confusion, have a lot of questions, and experience some frustration trying to soak it all in for this process.

But it is important to me to get back to my BW roots. The difference is that I worked in a darkroom then and digital is such a different animal. 

Just venting a bit. ;^)




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