Digital BW, The Print

My wife "likes" all my pictures equally.  She _tells_ me I'm a genius but I have no idea 
what she thinks.  She has nice shoes.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Alan Zinn <AZinn@n...> wrote:
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> >Using the time tested method of dragging my poor wife in the studio and
> >doing the 'which print do you like better' thing (same image scanned on
> >the drum and a Nikon 8000 or Sprintscan 120 then printed).  She picks
> >prints from the drum 99% of time.  She can't always articulate why she
> >likes them better, she just does.

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> It's nice that you have such a discriminating wife. Mine thinks I'm a genius
> and likes all my pictures equally. I fear that were I to subscribe to the
> Kravit seven step program the technical imperfections could accumulate and
> leap out at me with too fine a scan.  Shouldn't there be twelve steps for
> the sake of convention? We should apologize to people for all those rotten
> prints we did in our past.  
> 
> I have a friend who is a very precise large format photographer and printer
> who is also an audiophile who has to sit in a certain chair in his listening
> room to hear his - classical only, thank you - music properly. He likes my
> digital prints. We both wear cheap, ugly shoes. 
> 
> AZ
> Maker of Lookaround panoramic camera.
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