Digital BW, The Print

I pulled out my step wedges I did on Photo Rag using these curves since 
your comments made me curious to look again. I also made a print using 
the cold curve. On the step wedge it appears extremely cold - almost 
blue. But in the print it takes on the appearance of an extremely toned 
silver print and depending on the subject matter and taste can be very 
appropriate.

In a course I took some number of years ago the instructor (who was a 
student of Minor White) told me that Minor White would heavily tone some 
of his subject matter.  The instructor had on exhibit where he used this 
technique to produce very, very cold toned  prints. The exhibit was 
called "Florida Condo" and was a statement on how poorly we as a society 
treat our elderly. This toning worked very well on this subject matter 
and provided a significant impact.

So I think this curve is good one to have in your arsenal but it will 
most likely not be used that often.

Truman

Jerry Olson wrote:

>Yes, It was my fault. I used EEM, not photorag. I'm sorry, I should have 
>read that more closely.
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>Jerry
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>I'll try the cool neutral on photo rag to see what thats like.
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>Truman Prevatt wrote:
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>>The curves I downloaded for Boley are listed for Photo Rag. I didn't see 
>>any others out there. I've did try it on photo rag and it were indeed 
>>cold but I didn't see any crossover. I normally use the what looks like 
>>his cool neutral curve (the next one up). His instructions also call for 
>>setting the gamma in the printer for 2.2.
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>>Are these these same curves that you used on EEM? If so it might be the 
>>curves are not quite right for EEM.
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>>Truman
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>>Jerry Olson wrote:
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>>>Has anyone who has tried T. Boley's cold curve noticed that there is an 
>>>extreme crossover in colors? One of them
>>>shows certain gray tones to be absolutely blue. Prints look terrible. on 
>>>EEM paper, 1280 Printer, MIS VM inkset.
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>>>Jerry
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>>>Haven't tried the others in the set yet, this was the Cold05 curve.
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>>>Jeff Korte wrote:
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