Digital BW, The Print

Martin -

   Great questions! I wrote several articles for my newsletter (years ago!) on the issue of seeing and final composition. I think that we have all come across a scene that "needed something". My sensitometry and zone system students would often make the mistake of placing a particular part of a scene on a zone and forget the affect that this change in exposure had on the rest of the image. The result was often really crummy prints but with one part of it placed exactly where they wanted it! <G> 

   The beauty of digital imaging in my mind is not only the fact that you can cut, paste and layer yourself into oblivion but also bring out your own interpretation of an image and more specifically - parts of the image. The end result? I am not shooting any differently when it comes to exposing but I do worry less about airplanes in the scene, scratched negs and spot highlights and shadows that before could not be burned or dodged because of the image detail. I'm also a bit less anal about exposure. I can be off by 2/3rds of a stop and still get the information from the neg with my scanner! 

Brian


  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
  > 
  (snip)


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