Re: Great Enl. Negs - Better

FotoDave@aol.com
Sun, 01 Feb 1998 02:47:27 -0500 (EST)

<< Also, it seems to me that if you haven't done
much of this yet, it might be much better to use what is easier for now
to learn and perfect other aspects of the process and experiment with
pyro along with it -- but more or less seperately.

I think this is a great and sensible advice. Reading your whole message, I
really like your approach and philosophy in handling things, Larry.

>> I am a long time pyro user, but not exclusively. I have used virtually
all known methods of compensating development and have even devised
several methods which have not been mentioned in this discussion -- not
even by Dave.

Of course, I didn't mean that the methods that I mentioned are exhaustive. In
fact, after I logged off I realized that I probably should have made a
summary. My whole point is really not to present a method or methods. I was
just trying to point out (because we had the pyro discussion for a while) that
indeed we do see some special effects with pyro development, but we need to
know that the desired effects that we discussed so far did NOT come from the
STAINING but rather come from the COMPENSATING. This is a fact that I think
many had missed. And I do hope that this fact will shorten the research time
for people some who are doing the tests and experiments.

>> When I test something it is not to find the blanket best in the show but
to find out what something will do.

I do that a lot too. :)

>> Larry Bullis
>> Skagit Valley College

And do I remember correctly that this is in MICHIGAN?