Digital BW, The Print

Time could also be a factor...silver patina is not instant.
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> From: "JackG" <jackg@...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 07:07:09 -0600
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Beyond the name: selling prints/print quality of old
> vs new
> 
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> | For me, I have been playing around with dabbing my thumb into
> | a pile of lead pencil trimmings, to get a thumbprint thing going. I
> | press my thumb into the area just below my signature. Ink
> | seemed to be too strong and dark, but lead seems about right;
> | kinda light grey. Just to show that I made the print. I think I started
> | to notice this factor when I started looking at EWeston prints;
> | those "vintage" prints were made by him, and then those other
> | ones followed later, made by his son. The vintage ones always
> | seemed so much "better"; but that's probably only my projection.
> | I'm sure they were technically fine, maybe even better tonally. But
> | to know that EW made them, with that wacky setup in that cabin
> | in Carmel, just made them SO much sweeter.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Do you think that the difference between the "original" Weston prints and
> the later ones might be the difference in the quality of the photographic
> papers. Older papers had more silver, etc.
> 
> This is a question, not a statement, maybe it just seems that way.
> 
> John in OKC
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