Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for everyone's help & advise. Sometimes I feel as if I am getting wrapped 
around the axle and end up chasing an invisible tail not ever knowing if I am 
getting close or over shot the entire point. I guess the real challenge is 
understanding when a neutral is good enough. I spent some time over at hunter 
Labs reading a fe articles they have available on CIELab color space. The most 
important point I deoarted with was understanding the difference betwen 
technically acceptable an visually acceptable. Print gray charts, measuriong, 
and graphiong are super tools to work with. But what is the point of all of this 
effort if I am only surrounded by sheets full of "almost perfect" 21Step charts 
without ever printing a single photo. I suddenly find myself wrapped around the 
proverbial axle of tchnical greatness.

Paul, these documents will help alot as I work to master this art. Thank you and 
I did finally locate the other document (Split Toning ) I was looking for. It is 
from your 2006 7500_K4+ documented work. Great stuff.

The challenge I am currently struggling with is what I would like to think of as 
complete mastery of the tools. Ttrying to figure out how to pull a warm curve 
from a Lab b* +5 down to the x-axis. How to smooth a curve, extend the dmax of 
the 100% black, and how to manage the denisty spacing to an even 0.05 difference 
across all 21 steps. Somethings in life are acceptable as good enough while 
other notions will haunt us into the next life. Da Vinnci was on the History 
channel today...

Thanks for all of the help!

Phil


 



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From: Paul <roark.paul@...>
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, March 24, 2011 5:55:06 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: What does a BO Neutral Lab a + Lab b Curve look like?

  
I forgot to add, I published quite a few paper graphs with the 1800 3-MK 
write-up.

See http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/R1800-No-OBA-Paper.pdf for "natural" 
papers.

See http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/R1800-OBA-Papers.pdf for brightened papers.

Finding papers with the lowest Lab B increase was the challenge.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com 





      

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