Re: For those who are interested in making digital negatives using pigmented inksets

Beautiful VDB Loris!!!

Agustin Barrutia.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Loris Medici" <loris_medici@yahoo.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 3:08 PM
Subject: For those who are interested in making digital negatives using
pigmented inksets

> I was reading Sandy King's very informative article "Making Kallitype
> Prints: A Fresh Look at a Beautiful Printing Process" @ Ed Buffaloe's site
> (unblinkingeye.com) and noticed the statement below:
>
> Quotation > "...There is also a good paper on making digital negatives by
> David Fokos on the Bostick and Sullivan website. Unfortunately, Fokos'
paper
> is now several years old and has not been updated to reflect the current
> generation of inkjet printers..."
>
> Fokos' paper is indeed old but... FWIW, I got very successful results
> applying his Platinum curve (intented usage: to make imagesetter negatives
> for Platinum process) to my digital negative making workflow (that curve
is
> a Godsend - for someone like me; an
impatient-step-wedge-reading-incompetent
> person without a densitometer). The digital negatives for Van Dyke
> Brownprints below were made using an Epson 1160 CIS primed with a
pigmented
> quadblack inkset consisting of Conetech Selenium Piezotone Gray inks + MIS
> FS / FSN Black ink (old version - not Eboni) on Pictorico OHP using David
> Fokos' Platinum curve (modifying the last point as 255 - 255):
>
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1999496
>
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2012642
>
> (click the "Large" link below the images to see them bigger)
>
> I think they're nice tonally. What do you think? The most important fact
is
> that the tonal range and contrast of the prints are as close as possible
to
> what I visualized on my computer screen - that's what counts for me. After
> this recent "discovery" I redeveloped an inclination towards digital
> negatives for Van Dyke (because they're much more easy to make - but lith
> negatives still hold the quality advantage).
>
> I will try the curve with Cyanotypes (but decreasing the density by 10% at
> every point; that way the max density in the negative will be exactly the
> same density according my inferior Cyanotype curves).
>
> Regards,
> Loris.
>
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 31 12:24:18 2003