Digital BW, The Print

At 05:05 PM 4/16/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>I've been getting some off list mail about why I'd want to get some prints
>done in the wet - bearing in mind my well-known mania for inkjet printing.
>I've put two prints up here that I've been trying to print.
>http://foundobjectsgallery.com/3.jpg
>http://foundobjectsgallery.com/5.jpg
>
>The first is what inkjet does really well - lot of continuous grey tones -
>printed on PR it looks great.
>The second is the kind of low-key image I'm talking about (the neg is
>damaged and I've not spotted it yet). On FB Warmtone it glows, my best print
>on a whole range of paper is flat by comparison.
>
>Julian
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>Julian Thomas
>Bruc 168-6-1
>08037 Barcelona
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>Website at www.foundobjectsgallery.com
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>current exhibition: www.thesight.com
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>Gallery at http://www.mwords.co.uk/galleryGuests.htm#
>
>Streetphotography at
>http://www.borderless-photos.de/jthomas/jthomas-01.html
>
>tfno 679676321
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Julian,

Nice pictures.  I think you have reminded us of an important point that we
may forget in our enthusiasm for digital printing.  Expediency instead of
aesthetic judgment is the greater influence.  Could it be that there are two
or more acceptable states of most prints?  

AZ
Maker of Lookaround panoramic camera.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/8874/
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Could it be that there are two
> or more acceptable states of most prints?
>
I think that there are horses for courses as it were. I'm printing some 6x17
negs of harbour views and they are great on inkjet. Maybe 2 pixels in the
black and 1 pixel in the white and a huge fat histogram with a loooooong
scale. But some stuff looks better done on silver!

Julian