Digital BW, The Print

In this digital world, flexibility is really the answer. While I can proudly say, "film is dead", I 
completely empathize with Tyler's love of film grain for a "specific look". Sure, film is 
relatively cheap to shoot, but then you have to process it, then scan it. . . the workflow 
with a digital camera is so-o-o much easier and quicker. 

Wouldn't it be great if someone like Andromeda software (http://andromeda.com/main/
photoshop.php) could be talked into developing a grain filter that would satisfy the likes 
of Tyler, as Ernst has suggested? Then you could shoot digital, get creamy grain-free color 
images, then convert to B&W apply the grain filter to achieve exactly the kind of look you 
want.

John Nollendorfs


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" <deanwork2003@...> 
wrote:
>
> I know. I just had a client leave here 10 minutes ago. She said, "but
> you know, I like noise". There you go. Its a whole different ball
> game. Sometimes digital capture is really interesting, and sometimes
> it is a total nightmare and you never know from one day to the next
> which it will be.
> 
> john
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley"
> <tyler@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@ wrote:
> > >
> > > ...Higher image 
> > > resolution, be it in film or digital, sounds like a better idea to me!
> > 
> > Exactly!
> > 
> > Regarding the rest, and the original questions, I guess my point is
> > that there are no straightforward answers. The more I do this stuff
> > the more I realize any solution depends on a number of factors and one
> > approach may suit only a given set of problems.
> > If the discussion were severely limited to say, 8x10 prints, or maybe
> > portraiture only, or both, things get more straightforward very quickly.
> > I made a print here for an excellent photographer, very graphic and
> > abstract, motion blur, nighttime, shot from a train window with a very
> > small digital point a shoot... she had me make a 30x40. 
> > It's beautful.
> > Tyler
> >
>