Digital BW, The Print

Yup you've got it.. for me sometimes it's hard to explain some things... after seeing your post one more thing.. .. well one of your fancy tools :-).. could measure the paper ...then using Photoshop create the separation  necessary for the whites to work with the paper. 
Polar bears... yes ...I was privileged to shoot them some years back.. sort of like shooting ducks in a barrel from the snow coach but fun non the less. I've always loved bears..

jimbo


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Cdtobie 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 1:30 AM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Printing Pictures of Snow


    
  >>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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