Digital BW, The Print

Very good comments! The real problem is that there doesn´t exist a 
perfect print with the only exeption that you see the print as a 
perfect print. 
Bernard von Foerster

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tom Baker 
<tbaker1328@s...> wrote:
> Just one comment.  If it LOOKS different, is IS different.  So, 
compensate for the looks so that the different sizes look like what 
you want. It's all about looks.
>  
> Tom Baker 
> 
> hogarth <hogarth@s...> wrote:
> It's not just psychological. It's also physiological as well. 
Remember,
> the human eye is adaptive. The iris is always on the move, 
adjusting the
> amount of light it lets in, and therefore adjusting how bright the 
area
> it is looking at appears.
> 
> Depending on the subject, a print can look quite different to a 
human
> when printed small versus printed large, even if it objectively 
measures
> the same "average brightness." It can look both darker and lighter
> (depending on subject). It can look more contrasty or washed out
> (depending on subject). 
> 
> I've got a room that is gray, part of a remodeling job (that got 
me a
> darkroom!). When we got to time to pick colors, the designer sat 
with us
> and we picked colors on paint chips. This gray room, I picked the 
color.
> He asked if that was exactly what I wanted. When I said yes, it 
pointed
> to the chip two levels up from that one and said, paint it that 
color
> and you'll get what you want. I tried it - it's only paint. And he 
was
> right. 
> 
> As a block of color takes up your whole field of view, your eye 
tries to
> find a balance. It tries to make really dark colors appear lighter 
by
> opening up the iris. It tries to make really light colors darker by
> closing down the iris. The brain tries to compensate and keep the
> balance that you "know" is right. 
> 
> What makes anyone think that doesn't hold true for photographs?
> 
> Don't even get me started on using unsharp masking for small and 
large
> prints...
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 19:51, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> 
> > That sounds fishy to me. There may be some psychological effect 
at work, but
> > resizing an image shouldn't change the average brightness of it 
when
> > printed.
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> > Paul                mailto:pderocco@i...
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