Digital BW, The Print

Rusty,

First & foremost, welcome to the "dark side". Er, I mean the "carbon" side of 
life. The processes and technology can be a bit overwhelming. It is no different 
than spending hours trying to perfect the spooling of film onto the wire spool 
or perfecting contact printing. No different than trying to understand why teh 
print has a slight yellow tinit.

As in any trade, to learn requires pateince and time. To become expert requires 
learning. To become a master requires vision. We are or have all gone through 
the same learning curve. The trick is to print, observe, understand, and try 
again. Quite simple if you ask most but rather difficult to become much more 
than a novice at the skill. To seek is to understand and to understand is to 
have patience. Nothing is for free and everything that is for free is not 
worthwhile. Ask and we shall try to help. We ask that you simply try.


 

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From: Rusty Sterling <rustysterling@...>
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, February 25, 2011 11:33:27 AM
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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