Digital BW, The Print

My deal with cool tone prints is that they remind me
too much of a badly profiled b&w print made with OEM
inks.  ie. with a 12xx after Epson reformulated their
inks.  I see it more as a colorcast.

I settled on a tone that most closely matched my
silver gelatin darkroom prints..  medium warm(Tyler's
crv08 on PR).  Warmer toned prints remind me of older
photographs, which isn't all bad.

OTH, I seem to get better contrast in my prints w/ the
cool and neutral curves.  

  Daniel P\ufffdrez
  -Dallas


--- mkravit <michael.kravit@...> 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.
> 
> OK, so maybe I am color blind....maybe I am just
> plain contrary. I 
> just don't get it. Platinum prints are warm,
> paladium prints are 
> warm, and I love them. I find MIS FS inks on
> Hahnemuhle William 
> Turner to be exquisite. Just a bit on the warm side
> of neutral, but 
> oh was a feeling!
> 
> So I figure that perhaps I am seeing someting
> differently. So this 
> weekend I make three prints. A MIS-VM cool, and
> MIS-FS, and a MIS-FS 
> Neutral. I show these to 5 different people (not
> very scientific I 
> know). Each and everyone picked the MIS-FS print as
> their favorite.
> 
> So what is the fascination with cool tone prints?
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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