Digital BW, The Print

> Unless you can light your photograph from scratch, and have most equipment
> you need at your disposal, including crew, then selective lightening and
> darkening, and curves etc are essential to making a fine
> photograph and not
> a technical reproduction.
>
> It's very very rare that nature provides perfection without a bit of help
> from a visionary.

Hi Bruce,

With proper metering, exposure, framing and development...and setpoints and
tonal curves, I can get exactly what I want from an image, with all the
tonal detail I want...and I take it as a challenge to get all that right.

I spend a lot of time calibrating my entire system to allow me to do that.
I love to work with what exists in a scene...and enjoy seeing what I see in
the "image" as it exists, not in what I can turn it in to via PS.  That's
simply my "workflow"...and what I like to do.

Regards,

Austin