Digital BW, The Print

On 6/11/05 9:42 PM, "Jerry in Houston" <glewis4457@...> typed:

> <<Tyler Boley said:
> 
>> >No doubt they have lower dmax, but >they look rich
> and by
>> >no means weak next to Carl's beautiful >print.>>
> 
> It is my personal experience that life is not usually
> at dMax or particularly glossy. So, that elusive dMax
> is not usually at the top of my list of objectives for
> most of my prints and probably why I prefer the
> subleties of matte prints to the garishness of overly
> glossy prints ..... It is just a personal thing as it
> should be ..... I am not trying to be Paul or steve or
> Ansel although each of them has helped me to work
> toward my idea of what my photos and prints should be.
>  JMHO
> 
> Jerry in Houston
> 
> 
> 
I believe the printmaking form most famous for it¹s blacks. Richness, depth
of and a kind of transparency even...
Is platinum.
And that¹s a matt thing.
So I don¹t think it¹s all about how glossy the surface is.

Platinum prints appear to be floating on top of the paper.
Not underneath something like Gelatin.
Or at least there does not seem to be something between you and the image
like in a gelatin silver image.
This is kind of the case with inkjet as well.
The pigment is right up top.
Hence the success of matt with inkjet as well.

Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/





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