Digital BW, The Print

I totally concur with Bruce's comments below. I took the course with Jon
Cone about 16 months ago. It is a great start; similar to the analogy of
getting your degree - now the real learning starts. May I also recomment
a equally qualified source of wisdom. George DeWolfe has an excellent
"digital Fine Art print Making" workshop. In addition a book by George
based on his workshop is due out any day!.

Either is a must before you spend any money on a digital darkroom. Your
learning curve will be steeper (i.e. shorter duration) however much
experimentation needed.

Other sources of highly valuable wisdom are the URLs of Paul Roark and
Clayton Jones.


Good luck

Vartkes





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, hogarth@... wrote:
>
> John Moody wrote:
>
> > John,
> > Are you saying it's not possible for a reasonably intelligent
person
> > to take
> > the 4-day Black and White Digital Fine Print workshop (K7) at
Cone's and
> > produce gallery quality prints from artist's files in a very
short time?
> >
> I've taken the Cone course. It was excellent - the best four day
> workshop I've taken (from say 10 or 12 over the years) on *any*
subject.
> Jon is an excellent teacher and his staff is first rate.
>
> But, four days doesn't make you an expert print maker. Jon can teach a
> whole bunch and expose you to lots of tools and techniques, and tell
you
> when some of the tools are appropriate. His course cuts a big chunk
out
> of the learning curve, but it doesn't, and can't, eliminate it.
>
> There are subtleties involved that you can't understand without doing
> the work and experimenting with different techniques.
>
> You can go into Jon's course knowing nothing and come out a good print
> maker. But to be an excellent print maker you've got to make a lot
more
> prints. There is no substitute for experience.
> --
> Bruce Watson
>