Digital BW, The Print

on 6/25/02 11:23 PM, Martin Wesley wrote:

> Todd,
> 
> Unfortunately the hue seems pretty much the same across the tonal range. Not
> that this is bad, it just isn't to my personal taste. For other people
> consistency of hue is a much sought after quality in B&W prints. I like the
> variation in hue you can see in some of the MIS-VM prints. Peter Lindman's
> on Eclipse Satine in the A3 exchange being a good example of this. Very cool
> blue highlights with blue and magenta midtones and warm shadows.

Interesting. That's actually one of the things that originally attracted me
to the VM sets, the ability to split tone. I spent a lot of time working out
how to do it, then decided I didn't like it. I think the problem was I
wasn't crazy about the original cool hues. I should try it again with the
Sepia set (or god forbid, mix my own).
 
> Paper has a lot to do with this of course. The wedges I have in front of me
> are on Photo Rag where the base color is warm and blends into the PiezoTone
> ink set. Taking a look at some on EAM there is more variation since the base
> is cooler with a touch of green (to my eye). On something really cool like
> Legion Photo Matte you would get even more variation.

Makes sense, thanks.
 
> I have hopes that the upcoming Selenium Piezotones will offer more variation
> in hue. Down the road with the cool neutral set added in there will be
> opportunities to mix and match.

Good point, all these new inksets add a lot of possibilities!

Thanks,

Todd