Digital BW, The Print

Your not crazy.  The thing about BW is that you eliminate all the color
corrections and white balancing.  For instance, if you're photographing a
person standing in the shade of a tree, the light can be very green,
correcting that can be difficult - or if they are being hit by sun light,
but the shadow side is toward the trees - the face is warm from the
sunlight, but the shadow is green.  Then add in the tone of the paper - blue
if you're printing on some of these glossy papers, or warmer yellow if
you're printing on OBA free fine art matte papers.  There is a lot going on
with a color print.  One image I'll nail, and the next will be a terrible
struggle.

I love my BW, but some images want to be color.  Just keep pounding away.
It's a craft!  Developing the craft takes time.

Josh



On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:11 AM, the_des_bois <thedesbois@...>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This might be OT... but hey...
>
> Am I going crazy?
>
> I started photography in 1986 with the classic Nikon FM2 and Tri-X.
> Wet darkroom etc. Love at first sight.
>
> Now with digital... I find it very easy to create color photographs...
> until I get to the printing. I never seem to like the output.
> Calibrated monitor, custom profile for printer etc. Gloss I don't
> like. Matte paper always. I just hate having to fiddle with the color
> adjustments and color filters etc.
>
> Am I already an old school old photographer at 38? Why is it that
> whenever I set my printer to color again, full of hope, I get pissed
> in a couple of days and want to throw the machine out the window?
>
> Then I come back to pure carbon printing... QTR... simple, elegant,
> reliable... and I calm myself... until my next color crazy moment...
>
> Am I the only one?  ;-)
>
> Denis
>
>
>
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