Digital BW, The Print

At 9:07 AM -0800 3/23/02, della ellingson wrote:
>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


I think we are talking about the style and vision thing here.  There 
is no right or wrong way to do it.

Bill
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