From: Jeffrey D. Mathias (jeffrey.d.mathias@worldnet.att.net)
Date: 06/10/00-05:17:08 PM Z
Nick Makris wrote:
> ...
> I have never prepared an Analog negative for use with PT/PD ...
If you are serious about Pt/Pd printing, one of the best things you can
do for yourself is to learn what a negative looks like for printing a
certain way with Pt/Pd. This will only have significance if you do it
yourself. No one's curve, expertise, explanation, or advise will give
you what must come from your own experience.
Also expect negatives made on photographic films to print differently
than negatives made from ink and even differences amongst various
films. A particular ink will have its own transmission characteristics
as well as films. And Dan Burkholder even instructs that his curves get
one in the right ballpark but should still be tweaked.
As to judging a digital negative on screen, don't. I would strongly
suggest making judgments from prints made with the process selected
using the digital negative by trial and error. After many such trials
one should begin to become proficient in understanding what is need in
the negative to produce the print. Such efforts can afford one the
opportunity to master the technique.
-- Jeffrey D. Mathias http://home.att.net/~jeffrey.d.mathias/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 07/14/00-09:46:44 AM Z CST