RE: Actual photograph

Richard and others, what can you say about the tonal range of the prints
listed below?

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/2012642-lg.jpg (straight Vandyke)
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/1999496-lg.jpg (straight Vandyke)
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/2056041-lg.jpg (gold toned Vandyke)

The color and dynamic range of the scans are very close to the actual
prints "on my monitor".

TIA,
Loris.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Sullivan [mailto:richsul@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 4:08 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: RE: Actual photograph
>
> ... He could not believe they were Van Dykes. The
> process has a very
> short tonal range and I believe that it is almost impossible
> to generate a
> normal silver neg that fits the process. I've looked at and
> made Van Dykes
> off and on for 35 years now and never seen anything quite
> like this. One of
> the students had done some close ups of back lit Iris flowers
> and they
> looked like the very best made pts. Perhaps I shouldn't be
> talking like
> this.<grin>
Received on Fri Mar 18 06:05:43 2005