Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Djon" 
<westsidemaurice@y...> wrote:
> 
> IF the photog has seen something significant in the world, and IF he
> has  previsualized a print, the "screen image" might actually be a
> distraction.

The only way I can tell what the print will look like, according to 
my previsualization, is to create it on the screen. I am not making 
the screen image look like what the inital file image produced, but 
what I can produce. Then I can produce a resulting print that matches 
my mind's eye image. The closer the screen resembles the finished 
print, the more of the technical will disappear with experience and 
the more of the personal feelings will come through for me. Most of 
my 
photographic images express my feelings or my ideas, and if the 
images stirs some feelings or indeas in the viewer; that's good, but 
not the primary reason I took the picture. It's self-expression for 
me because it's a hobby for me; if it was a commercial job then the 
customer has to be satisfied, not me personally.


> 
> QTRgui doesn't "allow the resulting print to resemble"...it's a 
print
> engine, not a visualization device.
   
And it's ability to reproduce my screen image as I see it allows me 
to render my visualized image more closely.

Your friend in Photography,

Johnny