Digital BW, The Print

I love this forum...Keep me updated on the technology. So I still use film and I shoot only when I see is worth having because film is more expensive than digital. I also have binders full of negs instead of HD space filling up.
I use my darkroom for silver prints. I love to see the photo revealing itself in the tray. Still magic to me.
My process is:
Shoot Film
Have it scanned
Retouch and convert to B&W in photoshop. (that where I think digital is awesome. hard to do under a traditional enlarger)
Create an curve using my own plug-in.
Print  the photo with the curve generated above using my epson printer and a CIS. (use dye...no need for pigment.)
Contact print this inkjet print with my Ilford FB paper.
Develop in the trays, stop, fix and wash.

Dry mount...

I get an old traditional silver print that matches the B&W  displayed on my screen...Perfect blacks and white.
I do not think I would be able to obtain the same output if I only used my neg in the enlarger. Photoshop is the key in this process.

Best of both world. No bronzing, spray.....

My 0.02

PO


From: Dennis Baecht 
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:55 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: [Digital BW] Re:OT: Film or digital


I've given this digital stuff a try, and it just doesn't do anything 
for me. It does have a good place in news and family photography. 
I started shooting large format B&W 40 years ago on the 27 of this 
month. I stopped for a year to shoot strictly digital and I'm going to 
quit digital for anything but family snapshots. This thread started me 
evaluating how the last year has gone, and I made the decision to 
clean my darkroom up and start it up again. If they stop making film I 
still know how to make wet colloidial plates and I use Pyro and have 
enough film frozen to last 20 years.
You folks can have all this techno stuff.
Dennis
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, AnnMarie 
Tornabene <faeofavalon@...> wrote:
>
> I still shoot film as well (hell, I am still shooting with an ALL-
MANUAL camera!) and use an Epson 4990 flatbed scanner. I am looking 
into getting the fluid mount soon, too. It works perfectly for me :)
> 
> AnnMarie Tornabene
> www.annmarietornabene.net
>



 

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