buggz2k wrote:
I am REALLY want to to try traditional darkroom prints now.
Are there any experienced darkroom people who think scanned images are a LOT different than traditional wet print images?
Since I have no darkroom experience, I have no idea how different they would look.
Oh, I am thinking color here.
I feel that I can express a film image generally better on a traditional silver print, as long as:
1. Original exposure good based on tested film speed (with reference developer) with actual lens/shutter/aperture combination.
2. Negative developed for the contrast index that fits the scene and printing media.
The image of the barn was actually under-exposed by 2-stops, because on that sheet of film, I did not compensate for the filter-factor of the orange filter I used. There is very little shadow detail, curve pretty much skewed to the left. Photoshop (CS6 Extended) came to the rescue for scanning. Realizing the mistake, I took another shot (actually two) with the factor applied, which I will use for the silver print in the darkroom.
buggz2k wrote:
I am REALLY want to to try traditional darkroom prints now.
Are there any experienced darkroom people who think scanned images are a LOT different than traditional wet print images?
Since I have no darkroom experience, I have no idea how different they would look.
Oh, I am thinking color here.
I feel that I can express a film image generally better on a traditional silver print, as long as:
1. Original exposure good based on tested film speed with actual lens/shutter/aperture combination.
2. Negative developed for the contrast index that fits the scene and printing media.
The image of the barn was actually under-exposed by 2-stops, because on that sheet of film, I did not compensate for the filter-factor of the orange filter I used. There is very little shadow detail, curve pretty much skewed to the left. Photoshop (CS6 Extended) came to the rescue for scanning. Realizing the mistake, I took another shot (actually two) with the factor applied, which I will use for the silver print in the darkroom.
Hope that helps...
Edd
Jul 15, 2014 at 05:36 PM
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