Digital BW, The Print

Greetings and thanks for all the comments about my last post on the 
reactions received at the Ryuijie and Martha Casanave workshop I 
finished yesterday. The gist of that post was that no one could tell 
the difference between two prints identically drymounted and 
overmatted with a reveal on rag boards: one gelatin silver and the 
other inkjet R2400 on Epson Premium Semigloss (no overspray as 
someone asked in past responses). And most didn't care; they wanted 
to talk about the content and tonal rendering for emotional impact.

Soooo, I took in another image for their reactions. The day before I 
had presented a moderately higher key still life of two pears done 
in silver gelatin. The new image I did on Photorag with MK and 
slight sepia tone. I finished the print from large neg scan to final 
print in about 1/2 hour and printed on 8.5x11 paper.

My question to the two instructors (especially Ryuijie who is a 
master platinum printer) was what they thought of the "object 
quality" and "photographicness" was of the print I brought in. They 
already liked the image content. Both of them said they saw 
absolutely no problems. It did not look "digital" to them. I 
compared it to Ryuijie's platinum prints laid out all over the table 
and except for differences in scale and tint, the object-quality of 
the print was in the same catagory.

So now two experiences with fully acceptable inkjet printing. One on 
EPSG with PK/R2400/AWB comparing just fine with silver gelatin, and 
one on Photorag with MK/R800/RIP comparing just fine with platinum 
for its physical qualities.

Thanks for allowing me yo share my impressions...

Scott