Digital BW, The Print

--- Aleksandr Milewski <n6mod@...> wrote:

> Two comments on this thread:
> 
> One, if you've actually read what Ansel wrote about
> Moonrise, that 
> photograph is all about his skill as a printer. The
> original negative 
> (which was reduced significantly, even that contact
> print was 
> manipulated) was extremely difficult to deal with.

FYI:  Some years ago I took a B@W class from John
Sexton whom you probably know was Ansel's assistent. 
John took the workshop by the Adam's home and we got
to meet Mrs. Adams.  We also visited Adam's darkroom
and were shown the negative for "Moonrise" and I can
attest that the negative looked so bad that had it
been mine I probably would have thrown into my reject
neg stack and forgotten about it.  One of the points
Mr. Sexton made was that each time Ansel printed that
negative he produced a different print.  And it was
always very very difficult to work with.  I don't
think it can be argued that Mr. Adams was a superb
darkroom technician.
Joe Davajon


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