Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Tyler Boley" <tyler@t...> 
wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Martin Wesley" <
> mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> snip
> > I bet we would kill to have some of those prints Tyler is tearing 
up!
> 
> I guess all this mystique building I've been doing is working!
> 
> Martin,
> don't you ever get this funny feeling that despite all this dinking 
> around we are all doing, most of our prints probably look more or 
less 
> the same?
> Tyler
> 
> ...and I'm probably tearing them up with good reason...

Tyler,

You are absolutely correct. All the agonizing over 4 or 5% brighter 
or the size of the sharpening radius or whether to tone down that 
highlight in the corner may gain us little. Even a major change like 
you using the Piezo driver or my going back to Piezo ink, would go 
unnoticed by people looking at our work. All the dinking around 
probably contributes very little and in the long run may be majorly 
cutting into the amount of significant work that gets produced.

Like you said earlier, you get too close to it. But your reactions 
and sensibilities during the process are as important as the end 
result or at least are connected enough to be critical to the 
personal satisfaction derived from the whole cycle.

I believe that the work we produce is connected to the equipment, 
materials and methods we choose to work with. It feeds back from the 
results to our pre-visualization. So maybe no one else could tell but 
if we aren't satisfied it doesn't matter that they can't see the 
difference.

Martin