Digital BW, The Print

Check out Dan Burkholder's site. He had a tutorial on it that
I found very good.

Vinny
www.wulfsden.com




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, ender100 <Ender100@...> wrote:
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> Pure Palladium prints tend to have very open shadows and very long upper midtones and highlights.  The actual density of Palladium prints is only about log 1.5 at the most, whereas inkjet, gelatin silver, POP, Carbon prints have much higher density or blacks.   Platinum/Palladium does have a very long EXPOSURE SCALE—it takes a very dense negative to print with the process.  Prints can vary from very warm tone to neutral black.
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> You can colorize prints to emulate it and adjust the tonal curve to mimic it.  The ABW feature of the Epson printers, when used with the warmer settings does a nice job of emulating it.
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> Best Wishes,
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> Mark Nelson
> Precision Digital Negatives
> PDNPrint Forum @ Yahoo Groups
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> Mark Nelson Photography
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> On Jan 24, 2010, at 11:04:09 PM, "Steve Blair" <spbimages@...> wrote:
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> From:   "Steve Blair" <spbimages@...>
> Subject:    RE: [Digital BW] Platinum look on a ink jet
> Date:   January 24, 2010 11:04:09 PM CST
> To: digitalblackandwhitetheprint@yahoogroups.com
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> Platinum or Palladium, like the old style. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_prints It has a cypia look but the tonal range is greater. 
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> Steve 
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> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> From: Ender100@... 
> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:40:41 -0600 
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Platinum look on a ink jet 
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> Platinum color or platinum curve? 
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> Mark Nelson 
> www.PrecisionDigitalNegatives.com 
> PDNPRint Forum @ Yahoo Groups 
> www.MarkINelsonPhoto.com 
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> On Jan 24, 2010, at 4:09 PM, "spbimages" <spbimages@...> wrote: 
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> > Has anybody been successful in getting the platinum look using a ink 
> > printer. I am using an Epson R2400, photoshop CS4 with Silver Efex 
> > and have not quite had the success that I am looking for. 
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> > Thanks, 
> > Steve 
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