Digital BW, The Print

100% agree with Claude...

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Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 4:42 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Digest Number 2723


> Message: 1
>   Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:08:37 EST
>   From: claudej1@...
> Subject: Annie Lennox
>
> In a message dated 1/2/2005 7:41:52 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:
>
>> http://www.alennox.net.  This is the
>> artist Annie Lennox's website.  She's also a photographer, and there
>> is a killer B&W photograph of her in the Gallery on this website.  I
>> do have a sneaking suspicion, that this level of B&W is a medium
>> format film thing, and only in my dreams will I achieve this level
>> of gicl\ufffde type printing.
>>
>> If anyone has any suggestions/recommendations on how to achieve this
>> with Photoshop CS and my R800, I would be eternally grateful.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Laurence M. Schwarz
>>
>
> I honestly don't understand all the "mystery" surrounding quality digital 
> B&W
> photographs. Reminds me of the Zone System's evolution to a near-cult 
> status
> that perplexed Ansel Adams. It's pretty easy to do actually.
>
> All you are trying to do is get a printable density range on a piece of 
> paper
> ranging from .05 to 2.15.......less for matte papers.
>
> Expoxing and processing a 7-stop luminance range in the studio or with
> available window light is a piece of cake for a Canon Digital Rebel and an 
> $80 50mm
> f/1.8 prime lens with enough sharpness to make an 8x10 that looks as 
> grainless
> as a scanned 6x7 Tmax 100 negative (without all the dust bunnies).
>
> Annie Lennox is a rank amateur photographer with money and fame as a 
> singer.
> I don't get the ooh and ah over an image that any good portrait 
> photographer
> can produce 1,000 times a day without a blink.
>
> Claude