Digital BW, The Print

On 1/15/10 1:19 AM, Andrew Sharpe wrote:
>  
>
> You know, after I posted that this method of spotting was clever, I
> started thinking (I know, sometimes a bad idea). Glossy paper prints
> very differently than the non-OBA matte paper I use, with very different
> shades. It seems like it would be very easy to pick the wrong grey scale
> step for spotting, because when I spot the matte paper, it will be a
> different shade. I guess you would learn over time which of the steps on
> a given type of glossy paper matched the actual shade of the hole you
> needed to fill on a given matte paper, but it seems like this would be a
> pain.
>
> Perhaps it doesn't matter in practice; I haven't tried it yet.
>
> Andrew
>
> 
In practice it really isn't a problem, at least to my eyes. As you
probably remember from darkroom days, spotting is an art and digital
printing hasn't changed that. If anything, I think it may be more
difficult now since flaking can produce "holes" that are a fair bit
larger than dust or negative defects did on gelatin prints and they
aren't predictable from print to print..  As I recall (at my age not to
be trusted...) Adams etc. used professional spotters when they produced
an edition.



Roger

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