Digital BW, The Print

Lawrence,

Since I believe I see the flatness you are talking about in the jpeg (a
circular area about the size of a quarter even with the edge of the nostril
and the corner of the eye on the right of the print with two freckles?).
Since you worked in 16-bit mode then I would go back and see if it is there
in the original file.

I ran into something similar in a portrait where there was some light
reflected up under the chin which came out as a single shade of gray. Ugh! I
tried several different things but the problem was with the negative in the
sense that the amount of separation recorded was so slight (or non-existent)
that it was beyond my scanner's capability to resolve it. This was on a 6x7
TMax 400 neg scanned with a Polaroid 120 at 4000dpi. I guess my point is
that the area maybe tonally flat because it was tonally flat in the scene.

Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Smith" <lsmith@...>
To: "DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint yahoogroups.com"
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Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Weekly Critiques are back in business....


> On 3/20/02 11:14 PM, "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...> wrote:
>
> > Lawrence,
> >
> > Is the image on your site a scan of a print with the VM inks or a copy
of
> > the image file? I can see the flat tones in the cheek area.
>
> Martin,
>
> This is a jpg of the file itself.  I did make all the adjustments in 16
bit
> mode.  I will try your other suggestions and see what happens!  Thanks
>
> Lawrence
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