Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Barry -- You are right about this histogram.  This was a very
difficult negetive in the wet darkroom.  The sky was extremely dense
in the negetive (FP4+).  The file shown is a very flat scan (done in
slide mode and inversed to punch through the dense sky) to try to get
all the detail.  I was confused about the origin of this particular
version.  It is the original RGB version scanned from the blanck and
white negetive (sorry about that!).  I actually will mess around with
the curves once I better understand how the MIS inks work.  When I
printed with Epson inks I did adjust it quite a bit to bet a range of
tones. I'll definately look at the Paul Roark work flows.

Thanks -- Mark 



I will take a l --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y...,
"flyfishingusa2002" <tflyfish@c...> wrote:
> Mark,
> If you have a look at the histogram for your print using the FS inks 
> you will see that you have no full blacks, a huge gap and "blown 
> out" highlights. 
> 
> Instead of converting from duotone, why not use the Paul Roake 
> workflow from your original RGB? It is pretty simple. The beauty of 
> the FS inks is there ability to show lots of shadow detail, so I 
> would definately work on that. I try to get a quite a few full black 
> areas on my prints. 
> 
> The usual method of converting to greyscale is to use the mixer 
> method, have a look around and you should find lots of references to 
> doing this. 
> 
> Make sure that your printer is firing on all nozzles with a head 
> check.
> 
> I stuggled for years with a wet darkroom and finally gave up. What I 
> can do with PhotoShop and Quad inks I could never have done with the 
> wet darkroom. I wonder if Ansel would have stuck with the wet if he 
> had photoshop available to him? I would love to get a scan of one of 
> his negs to see what kind of print I could get! 
> 
> If you would like to email me a copy of your orginal file, I will 
> see what I can do if you like.
> 
> I hope that I have been of some help.
> 
> Barry
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "markjamesfisher" 
> <markjamesfisher@y...> wrote:
> > I've done a fair amount of wet darkroom work and am starting my 
> foray
> > into the digital side.  I was dissapointed with using color inks 
> and
> > duotoning on my Epson 870(seemed very difficult to get consistant
> > results).  I am now trying the Full Spectrum Inks from MIS -- 
> trying
> > but not succeeding!  
> > 
> > I have two images posted at:
> > 
> > http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=188255
> > 
> > 
> > One image is as seen on screen and one is the printed image.  The
> > image was in duotone and converted to to RBG.  I created a transfer
> > function per the Nevins method described on the MIS website and
> > applied that before printing on Epson Archival Matte.
> > 
> > I imagine the is a simple thing to fix, but I tried to search the
> > archive without much luck.  I am anxious to get out of the 
> darkroom,
> > but it seems I have a lot to learn.
> > 
> > Thanks -- Mark