Digital BW, The Print

David wrote - 

 

"Some people also suggest that you scan negatives in positive mode. This
makes the scan look like a negative, which you then invert in Photoshop or
whatever editing program you use. I don't know of any obvious reason that
this should be better, but at one point, I did convince myself that I got
better results with Nikon scanners that way, and it is the way I do things.
But I'm not sure that it makes that much difference. It's worth fooling
around with using your scanner and software."

 

I don't attribute that to anything other than how we see the information on
the screen. A long time back I would invert some files to see the Print Dmin
/ file Dmax so that I could see the information. The screen blasting out
white was hard to read compared to the  absence of projected light. When I
was done pushing those pixels around I would switch back to normal view.  It
is a part of the digital editing process that rarely gets talked about but
the perception of light from our screens. 

 

End points of detail, blacks or whites, can be helped that way from my
experience. 

 

 

Eric Neilsen

4101 Commerce Street, Suite 9

Dallas, TX 75226

214-827-8301

 

www.ericneilsenphotography.com

SKYPE ejprinter

 



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