Digital BW, The Print

Brian,

Thanks for the feedback. The digital aspect is slowly creeping into 
my thoughts in the field. I almost walked away from a shot a while 
ago and then suddenly thought, "Wait a minute! I can take out those 
power lines in the corner with Photoshop!" Seems so obvious but old 
habits die hard.

Martin


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Brian Mikiten" 
<bmikiten@s...> wrote:
> 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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