Digital BW, The Print

Yes, you CAN do it that way if you are satisfied with less than an image
could be!

Fine shadow detail with the correct contrast simply cannot be had by
manipulating your developer timing etc. You MUST apply burning and
dodging, etc, either in the darkroom or photoshop. To NOT do this is
simply accepting less quality than there could be in an image.


Austin Franklin wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
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