Digital BW, The Print

On Jul 1, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Bob Geoghegan wrote:

> That's a good way of showing Moonrise - or any other image that a  
> master
> printer like Ansel revisits at different times.  Mary Alinder's  
> excellent
> bio of Ansel discusses his later printing (when she worked for him)  
> as being
> darker & richer than his earlier printing.  If I remember  
> correctly., his
> eyesight had clouded somewhat and he'd sometimes go for too much  
> "drama" or
> over-tone a full day's work and have to redo it.  Those are among  
> the very
> few stories where Ansel comes across as grumpy when he had to be  
> convinced a
> batch of prints weren't good.


The availability of new high contrast fiber papers also effected the  
later prints of classic images during the 50s; I notice this most with  
Caponigro.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
CDTobie@...


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