Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 1/2/2005 7:41:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:

> http://www.alennox.net.  This is the 
> artist Annie Lennox's website.  She's also a photographer, and there 
> is a killer B&W photograph of her in the Gallery on this website.  I 
> do have a sneaking suspicion, that this level of B&W is a medium 
> format film thing, and only in my dreams will I achieve this level 
> of giclée type printing.
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions/recommendations on how to achieve this 
> with Photoshop CS and my R800, I would be eternally grateful.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Laurence M. Schwarz
> 

I honestly don't understand all the "mystery" surrounding quality digital B&W 
photographs. Reminds me of the Zone System's evolution to a near-cult status 
that perplexed Ansel Adams. It's pretty easy to do actually.

All you are trying to do is get a printable density range on a piece of paper 
ranging from .05 to 2.15.......less for matte papers.

Expoxing and processing a 7-stop luminance range in the studio or with 
available window light is a piece of cake for a Canon Digital Rebel and an $80 50mm 
f/1.8 prime lens with enough sharpness to make an 8x10 that looks as grainless 
as a scanned 6x7 Tmax 100 negative (without all the dust bunnies).

Annie Lennox is a rank amateur photographer with money and fame as a singer. 
I don't get the ooh and ah over an image that any good portrait photographer 
can produce 1,000 times a day without a blink.

Claude


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Indeed! God spare from celebrity dilettantes!

Steve Karafyllakis


> Annie Lennox is a rank amateur photographer with money and fame as 
a singer. 
> I don't get the ooh and ah over an image that any good portrait 
photographer 

> can produce 1,000 times a day without a blink.
> 
> Claude
> 
> 
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Wow Claude would you like a little cheese with that whine? It's a good shot and well done yeesh.

claudej1@... wrote:In a message dated 1/2/2005 7:41:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:

> http://www.alennox.net.  This is the 
> artist Annie Lennox's website.  She's also a photographer, and there 
> is a killer B&W photograph of her in the Gallery on this website.  I 
> do have a sneaking suspicion, that this level of B&W is a medium 
> format film thing, and only in my dreams will I achieve this level 
> of gicl�e type printing.
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions/recommendations on how to achieve this 
> with Photoshop CS and my R800, I would be eternally grateful.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Laurence M. Schwarz
> 

I honestly don't understand all the "mystery" surrounding quality digital B&W 
photographs. Reminds me of the Zone System's evolution to a near-cult status 
that perplexed Ansel Adams. It's pretty easy to do actually.

All you are trying to do is get a printable density range on a piece of paper 
ranging from .05 to 2.15.......less for matte papers.

Expoxing and processing a 7-stop luminance range in the studio or with 
available window light is a piece of cake for a Canon Digital Rebel and an $80 50mm 
f/1.8 prime lens with enough sharpness to make an 8x10 that looks as grainless 
as a scanned 6x7 Tmax 100 negative (without all the dust bunnies).

Annie Lennox is a rank amateur photographer with money and fame as a singer. 
I don't get the ooh and ah over an image that any good portrait photographer 
can produce 1,000 times a day without a blink.

Claude


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> Mark W.
> 
> Never seen a pc. of equipment yet that could make a better photographer.
> 

In the abstolute sense, perhaps, but relative to teaching with old 4x5 
cameras and Polaroid film........a digital Rebel with a 50mm f/1.8 lens, it's an 
affordable investment. Taking one picture costs the same as taking 1,000. The 
only costs are shutter wear and batterry recharge.

The rest is time and that is the best teacher of all. So, I guess more 
EFFICIENT equipment can make a better photographer.......................all other 
things being equal.

Claude


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I got home last night from my Christmas/New Year's vacation and download the
new version of QTR w/GUI from Roy's site and installed it (after
uninstalling and deleting the old version). Now it works great with both my
2200 and 7600 (even cutting off the roll paper). It even printed an image
that was stored on my Linux server and accessed via a mapped drive from my
PC. Thanks very much to both Roy and Stephen for their diligent efforts in
making this program useful. I will probably continue to use the Imageprint
RIP on my 7600, but now QTR has given my a way to print the same
metamerism-free b&w photos on my 2200. That will be very handy when I need
to print an image that doesn't need the full 24 inch width that the 7600
provides. My $ contribution will be on the way soon!

Thanks again,
Stan
=======================
Photography by Stan McQueen
http://www.smcqueen.com

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