Digital BW, The Print

Go to the Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/

Click on "SEARCH" and search for "Floyd Burroughs, Cotton
Sharecropper, Hale County Alabama" and click on the link to the image
with that name. (unfortunately, you can't go straight to the image)
It's a famous Walker Evans image that you probably have seen, possibly
in an original print from Library of Congress. 

Click on the image and it will give you an option to download a 12 Mb
uncompressed archival TIF file of that image. 

Don't mess with the file in Photoshop, print it exactly as it is. It's
a 400 dpi 8x10 8 bit greyscale file that delivers a superb print.
I*t's the best reference image I've ever found. 

Once you see how it prints, you can then start messing it up yourself. 

Bob Michaels 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "kcongdon"
<kurt@c...> wrote:
> Hi
> I'm new to digital b/w printing, having just bought a C84 with the 
> MIS UT EZ ink set for it.  I've been monitoring this group now for 
> about 6 months, and I've been soaking up as much information as 
> possible.  I'm trying to improve my technique, and have been having 
> problems getting a good tonal & contrast range in my b/w prints. 
> 
> I was curious, are there any good reference images (tif or psd) that 
> I could download and use to practice printing?  I took a look at file 
> section for this yahoo group, but didn't see anything.  Does anyone 
> have any recommendations for a reference image?