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Darkroom lament and Origin RE: [Digital BW] Re:What is a Giclee.... straight fr

2008-10-13 by Jules

You shouldn't be saddened, more went on in those darkrooms than just printing! Lol. 
  And as for sheets of paper not knowing what it is. Yes I have lots of those. Sample packs 
with ten sheets in, all unmarked. Knowing what profile to use to print on them is now 
impossible.
 Jules

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "E Neilsen" <e.neilsen2@...> 
wrote:
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> I am saddened that so many of you suffered in smelly darkrooms. Good
> ventilation is the difference between enjoyable darkroom time and 
> 
> a dark dangerous place. But you missed the point, the previous post was more
> about word creation and I was associating the smell with the words origin.
> People could walk into my studio darkroom and smell but a hint of anything
> chemical and many wondered if I really did make all those prints there.   
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> How many different boxes of digital paper do you have and the associated
> sample packs which for the most part are not individually labeled so after a
> few years goes by you have more scrapes of paper that you don't know than
> do? At least with a paper safe they were out of sight out of mind ; ) 
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> Eric
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> Eric Neilsen Photo
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> 4101 Commerce Street, Suite 9
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> Dallas, TX 75226
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> 214 827-8301
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> http://ericneilsenphotography.com
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> SKype ejprinter
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>   _____  
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> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Shoshanna
> Moser
> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 8:04 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re:What is a Giclee.... straight from the source
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> 
> >E Neilsen wrote:
> >Have you ever toned with Sepia toner; sulfide stinks. It may be more 
> >in reference to smell than taste; like or dislike.
> 
> .
> It was always a staple in my darkroom, as were blue and (to a lesser 
> extent) red toners-- and I wholeheartedly agree with you that they stank 
> to high heaven, but they weren't alone in this. Aromatic unpleasantness 
> was pretty much part and parcel of many of the other chemicals with 
> which we regularly worked. 
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