Digital BW, The Print

Mike, it's gotta be different strokes for different folks.  I LOVED the
oriental seagull paper. I love cold tones. Don't like warm tones at all.
The neutral prints fade to warm, but the cold tone prints, if they fade
at all, fade to neutral.

I too made many many MANY prints of everything from Paul's warm curve to
the Cold curve. Every person I showed them to preferred the cool tone
print, THe cold was too blue, (You can actually see it's blue, not just
cold), the neutral is just a hair too warm, and the warm curves WAY too
warm. 

I guess photographers as a rule just don't like warm tone prints, at
least here in COLD North Dakota.

However, I did notice when I had 20 images up in a gallery that were
half warm and half cold, (The Gallery owner suggested there should be a
choice), that they sold about equally well. :).

I have never seen a palladium print, but I've seen many platinum prints
and hated them. WAY too gray and muddy, no snap at all, and too warm also.

Jerry

mkravit wrote:
> 
> Please, explain someting to me. What is the fascination with cool
> tone prints?
> 
> Years ago everyone was raving about Seagull Oriental, I tried it and
> hated it. Too cold, too purple, too, well ugh!
> 
> I look at the cool prints that the MIS VM inks produce and to my eye
> they are way too blue.