Digital BW, The Print

> I see the highlights in the face being posterized as well. I 
> don't think you have enough actual detail in the shadows to 
> do much. If the detail isn't in the image, you can't get it. 
> Also there is an outline of the whole head that probably 
> shouldn't be there, looks like an old fashioned mackie line 
> from the wet darkroom days...
> 
> Jerry
> 

Jerry,

This has been an interesting experiment with D30.  I used the 16 bit RAW
mode to capture, converted to 16 bit tiff and then did adjustments in
PS.  It is important to add that the image was underexposed about a stop
and I had to bring it up carefully in order to not introduce more noise
etc.  I am a digital camera neophyte and if I've learned anyhing it's
that underexposing is NOT a good thing!  LOL.  I was going to shoot this
as with my 645 as well but ran out of time and had to call it a night.
I wish I had been able to get a film version.  Oh well.  Thanks to all
for your feedback.  I'm going to work on the image some more and see if
it can be salvaged.  If not, it will be a 'web page only' deal ;-)

Lawrence