Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 1/2/2005 7:41:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:

> http://www.alennox.net.  This is the 
> artist Annie Lennox's website.  She's also a photographer, and there 
> is a killer B&W photograph of her in the Gallery on this website.  I 
> do have a sneaking suspicion, that this level of B&W is a medium 
> format film thing, and only in my dreams will I achieve this level 
> of giclée type printing.
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions/recommendations on how to achieve this 
> with Photoshop CS and my R800, I would be eternally grateful.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Laurence M. Schwarz
> 

I honestly don't understand all the "mystery" surrounding quality digital B&W 
photographs. Reminds me of the Zone System's evolution to a near-cult status 
that perplexed Ansel Adams. It's pretty easy to do actually.

All you are trying to do is get a printable density range on a piece of paper 
ranging from .05 to 2.15.......less for matte papers.

Expoxing and processing a 7-stop luminance range in the studio or with 
available window light is a piece of cake for a Canon Digital Rebel and an $80 50mm 
f/1.8 prime lens with enough sharpness to make an 8x10 that looks as grainless 
as a scanned 6x7 Tmax 100 negative (without all the dust bunnies).

Annie Lennox is a rank amateur photographer with money and fame as a singer. 
I don't get the ooh and ah over an image that any good portrait photographer 
can produce 1,000 times a day without a blink.

Claude


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