Digital BW, The Print

>>Hi,
Ok I've read the thread and I sort of don't think you have your answer yet.. To get there first imagine yourself a painter.. (ok my piers don't laugh) If your doing snow you will put paint on the canvas.. but in our case we can't go whiter then the media so we need to pull back from the paper white to show texture.

This "peer" finds that a very valid description, in fact I regularly teach photography in terms of a painter's palette. In this case it's much more like watercolors without using Chinese white, instead if oil on canvas: paper white (with the exception of the new proofing printers with white ink) is the only white you get, so everything else needs to be derived from this, plus colorant. Which is why having the specular highlights in platinum blonde hair burn out to a blue paper, or the highlights in snow ramp from blue to a natural, more yellow paper, has problems. 

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Imaging Color Solutions
Datacolor inc. 
cdtobie@...
www.datacolor.com

On Nov 28, 2011, at 2:49 AM, "mrjimbo" <mrjimbo@...> wrote:

> Hi,
> Ok I've read the thread and I sort of don't think you have your answer yet.. To get there first imagine yourself a painter.. (ok my piers don't laugh) If your doing snow you will put paint on the canvas.. but in our case we can't go whiter then the media so we need to pull back from the paper white to show texture.


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