Digital BW, The Print

On 05/09/2012 Seth Rossman wrote:
> Therein lies the rub for me. The loss of grain structure is a loss of
> one of the qualities of B&W films.

Fair enough. Despite my stuff being reportage-ish, grain was something I 
didn't like much, it got in the way. I could accept it in other peoples' 
work but generally it bugged me in my own. First time I saw a contact 
print from a 10x8 was a transcendant "holy crap" 10 minutes of just gazing 
at the thing on a wall in disbelief (V&A Museum, "The Land" exhibition 
c.1976 or 7). No grain, sharper than reality, a world in miniature. It 
just never occurred to me that it would have been improved by a coating of 
silver grit :)

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Tony Sleep
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