Digital BW, The Print

Hi Tim,

No, over your head is "talking" on a list with amazing photographers when
you only take photos of your kids/dogs/flowers etc.

I've visited your site before, your images are beautiful... serene.  What
printer are you using?  I really like duo-tones with Epson inks but on my
2000P I do not have great luck getting a nice print without the green issue.
(others do though) With the dye inks I can get a lovely print, just no
longevity.  I prefer duo/tri/quad tones for a lot of my personal images but
I've never seen a true selenium toned photograph so cannot offer a curve set
that would match that tone.

I take it from your post that you are using the duotone presets, have you
tried the tri or quad tones?  I prefer using the grayscale/duotone(tri
quad)/rgb procedure for any sharper, clear images because the prints have
the crispness that they deserve. (the colors map better) For softer,
textured images sometimes I'll use the Hue/Saturation sliders with
"colorize" checked. Have you played with that?

Sorry, I'm not much help... It's usually a matter of playing with the curves
in the presets as you've described until you achieve the tone you like.

Best,
Carolyn



> I am new to printing and most of what you have been discussing is
> over my head. However, am I correct in this post that you print
> duotones? I am printing selenium-toned duotones with some adjustment
> in the curve box beside the color. Do you print any selenium type
> duotones that you like and wouldn't mind sharing? My site url is at
> the bottom of this post so you can see the type of images that I use
> for my printing. Any help you care to give will be most appreciated.
> It seems that most people prefer straight b/w as opposed to the type
> of printing I do. Consequently, when anyone mentions duotones they
> immediately get my attention. Thank you.
> 
> Regards,
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> Tim
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