Digital BW, The Print

Phillip,
I read your post twice.. Words of wisdom for sure.. To many want instant gratification without really learning and understanding the process.. 

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Phillip Kimble 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 10:30 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Talk about intimidating


    


  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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