Digital BW, The Print

Unless you have seen aspen trees back lit in person, it is hard to
appreciate the "illuminated from both sides look". 

I know that AA used all kinds of darkroom magic to make his prints.
I've also heard that he complained about Moon Rise being a "bitch" to
print.

Ansel would love digital and especially Epson printers! Maybe he is
looking down upon us with great jealosy?

John Nollendorfs

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bruce"
<brosin1@...> wrote:
>
> One of the AA "Aspen" prints that I saw appeared to be heavily
> "ferricyanided"  (i.e. chemically bleached).  I don't know if it was
by AA
> print or by an assistant.  High quality duotone litho prints of this
same
> picture looked better to me than the silver-gelatin print because the
> printing process moderated the bleaching artifacts.  Bleaching can
really
> make or break some prints, but you are always on the razors edge of
make or
> break.    IMHO Bruce Barnbaum is a master of the technique.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phil Morse" <pmorse@...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 5:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Moonrise - was Signing prints question
> 
> 
> This is probably OT in this discussion  ;-)  but in most of AA's
'Aspens'
> images the tree trunks appear to be illuminated from both sides but
not the
> front.  Explaination please?  This has always bothered me.
> 
> Phil Morse
>