Digital BW, The Print

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Moody 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: 11/14/2006 10:20 PM
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Real World Print Viewing


  Solux desk lamp.

  Best regards,
  John Moody

  -----Original Message-----
  From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of mbutler355
  Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:54 PM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [Digital BW] Real World Print Viewing

  Hi All,

  I bought an r2400 about 2 months ago, and I'm having a good ole time with
  this thing. I've
  been following Clayton's workflow for BW. Love it. But lately I've been
  trying Paul's EZ
  Yellow system, with Clayton's workflow.

  My "studio/darkroom" is a spare bedroom with the computer and printer in it;
  it has
  overhead incandescent light bulbs in one of those godawful home depot glass
  bowls on
  the ceiling.

  Anyway, these EZs come out of the printer with what looks to me like a nasty
  cyan or
  magenta cast. Our British friends might describe the look as "plummy."
  They're
  frightening, in a way.

  But I like the way these prints look in my living room, which has tungsten
  downlights and
  a gallery-like atmosphere. Sometimes I walk a print out to the sun porch and
  view it in
  daylight to see how I've done.

  I was just wondering, without being too technical, what kind of light you
  use to judge
  prints by and know you nailed it. In the wet darkroom days, using mostly
  Ilford paper, I
  could tell instinctively I nailed it with drydown and all that.

  Maybe that's too much too ask with digital printing and all the different
  kinds of papers?
  (By the way, I figure my monitor is pretty well calibrated with the Monaco
  system.)
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