Digital BW, The Print

Many of you may have seen the adds for limited edition Silver prints from 
Lenswork publishing for 39.00. Well, I ordered one last Oct\nov and sort of 
forgot about it.
It arrived today. I bought a Huntington Witherill 11x14 silver print from the 
Botanical dances series for 39.00. These are made from digital contact 
negatives. This sucker has a beautiful quality. Its about 10x13printed on a 
16x20 sheet of what looks like Kodak fine art Silver paper. Only with an 8x 
loupe can a see any kind of screen pattern. Its not the type of image to 
judge critical sharpness but it really has that silver richness.
I need to find out more on how this is done. I plan on buying more of them, 
they really are a bargain and very well done.
If any one from lenswork is lurking, where are you getting the negs made? any 
workshops? 
Makes me rethink this ink stuff! For the moment anyway.
Steven Meyers


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on 2/5/02 1:43 AM, sdmey4@... wrote:

> Many of you may have seen the adds for limited edition Silver prints from
> Lenswork publishing for 39.00. Well, I ordered one last Oct\nov and sort of
> forgot about it.
> It arrived today. I bought a Huntington Witherill 11x14 silver print from the
> Botanical dances series for 39.00. These are made from digital contact
> negatives. This sucker has a beautiful quality. Its about 10x13printed on a
> 16x20 sheet of what looks like Kodak fine art Silver paper. Only with an 8x
> loupe can a see any kind of screen pattern. Its not the type of image to
> judge critical sharpness but it really has that silver richness.
> I need to find out more on how this is done. I plan on buying more of them,
> they really are a bargain and very well done.
> If any one from lenswork is lurking, where are you getting the negs made? any
> workshops? 
> Makes me rethink this ink stuff! For the moment anyway.
> Steven Meyers

Steve,

I haven't seen first hand any of those prints but I've been meaning to buy
some. They do seem to be under priced. I too have been frustrated by "this
ink stuff" lately. It happens sometimes when I work an ink print for a
looong time trying to get it right, then I stumble across an old silver
print that's just better, and I know I didn't fuss it as much...

The digital/silver does seem to be a great compromise. Isn't it scary how
cheap they sell those for? Is it because they are "tainted" by the digital
hand? How much would they sell for if they were Piezo prints, or god forbid,
MISprints?

Sometimes I think of the time and money I've put into this stuff when I
already had a kickin' darkroom....Still I always hated washing and
pressing... No wonder they cost more....

Todd

In a message dated 02/04/2002 10:54:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
tflash@... writes:


> Steve,
> 
> I haven't seen first hand any of those prints but I've been meaning to buy
> some. They do seem to be under priced. 
> 
 All I can say is its a kick ass beautifully toned silver print. Lenswork 
Publishing is in Anacortes Wa. about an hour north from me. I plan on taking 
a trip up there soon and poke around.
It really is an exciting print, course the original neg was 5x7 so i'am sure 
that helped the digital neg. They are going to be at Art expo in NewYork end 
of this month, maybe some of our NewYork members will check it out.
Steve M.



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I seem to remember Brooks (on this list?) stating he intended to post the
process somewhere. Anyone know what became of that?

Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: sdmey4@... [mailto:sdmey4@...]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 12:10 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] LensWork silver prints


In a message dated 02/04/2002 10:54:10 PM Pacific Standard Time,
tflash@... writes:


> Steve,
>
> I haven't seen first hand any of those prints but I've been meaning to buy
> some. They do seem to be under priced.
>
 All I can say is its a kick ass beautifully toned silver print. Lenswork
Publishing is in Anacortes Wa. about an hour north from me. I plan on taking
a trip up there soon and poke around.
It really is an exciting print, course the original neg was 5x7 so i'am sure
that helped the digital neg. They are going to be at Art expo in NewYork end
of this month, maybe some of our NewYork members will check it out.
Steve M.



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Steve,

I am just starting out in the digital negative/contact print process. I
purchased Dan Burkholder's book some time ago and have finally started to
make some negatives. Check out his site: www.danburkholder.com.

I have been working with Peter Ellzey at Copygraphics in Santa Fe. He has
been very friendly and helpful. The basic concepts of the process are
simple. It's putting them into practice that is the tricky part.

Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: <sdmey4@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 1:43 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] LensWork silver prints


> Many of you may have seen the adds for limited edition Silver prints from
> Lenswork publishing for 39.00. Well, I ordered one last Oct\nov and sort
of
> forgot about it.

Scott, the guy from lenswork did post a while back that the negs they use are 
made from a modified Burkholder technique. Imagesetter made. The hard part of 
all this is finding a local guy to make the imagesetter negs. Since lenswork 
is almost local for me, I hope to find out who is making thier negs.
Steve M.


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