Digital BW, The Print

Did you soup your film for a couple of days or so, or a minite or 10
and let your "highly developed visual skills" make marvelous prints?
Or did you occasionaly use something like numbers and standards?

All "workspaces" , "profiling" etc aside we still are bound by the
currently immutable numbers 0 to 255 or 100% to 0% if you prefer that
as your reference. The discussions on this thread are about methods of
getting that 95% or 15% both visible on your screen and in the same
point in the spectrum on a piece of paper. In the context of
monochrome and printing the only good workspace is one in which you
can use "visual skills" in editing and be relatively assured that your
"vision" will make it to a print reasonably close to what you saw
onscreen. There are a variety of ways to get there espoused by a
variety of people-- or not.

D.





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Djon"
<westsidemaurice@y...> 
> 
> Profiling is mostly a workaround that pretends numbers replace highly
> developed visual skills ...  aspiring digital photographers are taught
> that the truely miraculous ez-as-pie technology with which they've
> been gifted needs to be made complex by mostly-incoherent-priests
> (present company excluded, of course :-)
>