Digital BW, The Print

> You DON'T think Inkjet prints are better than darkroom prints?

Jerry

I don't think they are "superior to any darkroom print". Certain images are
served better by one medium over the other. A blanket statement of one
process being superior to the other isn't true for either silver of carbon
quad/hex. I'm certainly capable of making poor prints in either medium which
are exceeded by the other, and I don't know that we've yet seen the *best*
either medium is capable of.

I brought up Brett Weston because so much of his imagery is based on
abstractions that I think were formulated on the basis of what he could get
out of the materials of his day. I think if he were printing on matte papers
(which he could have done at that time, if he felt it would serve his art),
he'd have shot differently, and we'd be discussing a different body of work
from him.

This is a big topic, which I'd love to flush out some time, but I've a busy
weekend ahead, now is not it.

In short I'd say I have some images which work better in silver, and others
look better in carbon. As I look to the future I expect digi/carbon to
improve further than silver, and my opinion may be different at that time,
but presently I have too many images that need silver, in order to be what I
want them to be.

Todd

> You DON'T think Inkjet prints are better than darkroom prints?
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> Jerry
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> Todd Flashner wrote:
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>> Jerry, I happen to have an inside track on the Brooklyn Bridge if your in
>> the market for one. ;-)
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>>> yes. (assuming Bret Weston prints them with a quad system.). He might not be
>>> able to do so, as he's assumed room temperature. :)
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>>> jerry
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>>>> on 8/23/01 3:46 PM, Jerry Olson wrote:
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>>>>> Nick, I'm about as picky a person as you will ever see. I think that
>>>>> digital
>>>>> prints are superior in every way to darkroom prints. They are
>>>>> sharper, the shadow detail is greater, the highlight detail is greater,
>>>>> and
>>>>> you can do things in photoshop not even the worlds greatest
>>>>> printers could do in the darkroom.
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>>>> Superior to Brett Weston's prints?
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>>>> Todd
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