Digital BW, The Print

Brian,

I am still going through the silver-to-inkjet transition myself. 
Personally I always preferred smooth silver to platinum or matte 
silver. I have seen many wonderful platinum and matte prints that I 
would love to hang on my wall, but that was not the direction my own 
vision took. For those of us who worked exclusively in smooth silver, 
I think the move to inkjet is a harder one than for those who have 
worked in platinum, silver matte or other mediums with a lower 
dynamic range.

Your comments about your two prints leads to my question.

After someone has been pursuing photography for awhile, they come 
across shots or compositions that would be really great, but from 
experience they know that there is no way they can pull it off 
technically and get it convincingly on a piece of paper, so they 
don't bother to take the shot.

Are you finding that since the end result is different than silver 
you are "seeing" and shooting differently than you did for silver? 
And if you have changed, was this a conscious change or something 
that evolved more spontaneously?

Martin Wesley



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Brian Mikiten" 
<bmikiten@s...> wrote:
> Jerry -
> 
>   No problem. I think my point should have been directed more 
towards the fact that I had problems "warming up" <G> to piezo than 
anything else because of the issue of print tone. When I hold a piezo 
print next to one of my Oriental/Selenium toned prints, it is 
different - not necessarily bad but different. I have a print of a 
worker's glove stuck in a puddle of tar that in a silver print is 
stunning. As a Piezo print on several types of paper it has serious 
problems. On the otherhand, one of my more popular prints of a church 
here in Texas is actually quite nice on Piezo. Again, I equate much 
of what I see in Piezo to be more like a platinum print than a 
straight silver print because of the black/white issue.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Brian
> 
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