Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Thomas Keesling" 
<tom.keesling@a...> wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> Martin mentioned these curves back on 3/12 and there were a couple 
of
> follow-up posts.

Okay, thanks. I did a search but didn't guess the right keywords I 
imagine<g>. I'll go back and look.

> 
> My experience with the VM inks until a few weeks ago was limited to 
antique
> photo restoration. But a few weeks ago I began experimenting with BW
> photography. I started with Paul's curves and was working on Photo 
Rag, ESFA
> and Museo.
> 
> I downloaded Tyler's curves a couple of weeks ago after Martin 
mentioned
> them and have been experimenting, mostly on Photo Rag and to a 
lesser degree
> ESFA. I have some Museo, but haven't tried them with that paper yet.
> 
> Since I've never used EAM I probably wasn't getting optimal results 
with
> Paul's curves on the Photo Rag or ESFA, but I was still pleased. 
However,
> Tyler's crv08 curve gives me the best prints I've produced to date, 
using
> these inks and Paul's workflow on Photo Rag.

To clarify: Paul's workflow would call for "photo paper" to be 
selected and sRGB as color space. Tyler calls for "matte 
paper-heavyweight". Which do you use? Also, by crv08 being great, how 
do you weight that? i.e. tone is better, density steps more even, 
whatever. And how warm is it wrt Paul's four curves?

Apologies for the questions. Trying to get as much understood before I 
lanch off on a new set of curves to experiment with. 

 I think it's 
phenomenal. ESFA
> isn't too far behind.
> 
> I experimented briefly with the warm02 curve and it looked good as 
well, but
> the cld01 was hopelessly posterized.
> 
> Hope this helps...

Yes, it does. Thank you.
Jim H.
> 
> Tom Keesling