Digital BW, The Print

It took me ages to get a sharpening system that I can use. I've been using
Ultrasharp for a while and I like it. I ignore all the defaults, but use the
levels commands to get all the edges totally black and the rest totally
white. I did a test that John Brownlow recomended on both my scanners, i.e.
scratch a blank neg and then sharpen until the cut is sharp. Now I'm quite
happy with my sharpening. My big concern is film flatness in the
scanningprocess!

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Tucker" <mtucker508@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 11:53 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Better Scans, was Re: Print Exchange


> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., SKID Photography
> <skid@b...> wrote:
> To my eye, it appears
> > over sharpened in some areas.  I know that you said that you
> do not sharpen, but in the areas of the image
> > like the lighter bags or the face there is a very tight granular
> pattern that I do not think is grain.
>
>
> Harvey/Michael,
>
> Interesting that you say that, because I thought the same thing.
> Michael's image changed so much, depending on the viewing
> distance. At arm's length, the radiance just leapt out at me. The
> coat, the bags, etc.
>
> But the thing that I noticed, that to me seemed oversharpened, or
> grainy, or whatever, was the blacks of the eyes. I couldn't really
> put my finger on it, but when I looked close, it kinda bothered me
> a bit.
>
> Again, like Harvey, I'm saying that the print was pretty killer. So
> take this as just a bunch of guys sitting around, talking honest,
> and respectful of each other's work. OK?
>
> For me, I"m still dumbfounded to know how Paul Roark got such
> amazing sharpness, and smoothness, and detail, and lack of
> dot, out of 3000, with the Epson driver. That print of the driftwood
> has been passed around the office several times today. I wrote
> Paul offlist and he says it was printed with Epson driver; (I
> thought maybe Piezo driver, to reduce dots). Whatever he did,
> that is my new standard to aim for. True, I'm never stepping near
> that workflow of VM inks, but I'm going to start experimenting with
> better sharpening techniques, and might start testing some
> tighter-grain films.
>
> So you guys are having a ripple effect all the way to Nashville.
> Good job...
>
> -Mark Tucker
>
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