Digital BW, The Print

Steadman,

Is this bias being pleased by the medium or restricted
by the medium? Photo could not give us shadows which
we wished for. It gave us black where nature did not.
We exaggerated it then, did we not? We exaggerated it
to have some control over it. I was once a very
black&white printer. Then I found PiezographyBW and
now I would characterize myself has a wide tone
printer. When I shoot I see that black and white
seldom exist in nature. Film is able to produce this.
Darkroom paper can not.

Many will argue these points and explain with
misconception that the zone system permits control
over the shadow and highlight. But the zone system
only allows manipulation of that which is just not
quite black and just not quite white. PiezographyBW
software allows much greater control within these
confines. The black and the white are pushed much
further apart. But how many printers actually have
sensitivity to this? How many desire this? Most are
still desiring a deeper black and a whiter white!

-della


> Hello Della,
> 
> I found your observations of the shadow detail using
Piezo versus silver
> prints very interesting.
> 
> I think what happens is a natural "bias" to the
medium which one has
> "learned" and lived with for a long time.  The
esthetics of a silver printer
> are probably indelibly (to use an ink term) marked
by a need to have "deep
> blacks" and not so much a revel in the revealing
shadows.
> 
> I agree that the Piezo shadow detail can be
spectacular...drawing one into a
> print in a new way.
> 
> Thanks for posting your views...I enjoyed reading
them.
> 
> Steadman

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