Re: Shadow and High Key Contact Printing

From: altprinter ^lt;dstevenbryant@mindspring.com>
Date: 03/17/06-09:39:38 AM Z
Message-id: <6944105.1142609978884.JavaMail.root@mswamui-billy.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Wht don't you just ask Mark Nelson? He will give you the whole scoop. Trust me.
There isn't really any need to be coy about asking your question.

Don Bryant

-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Koch-Schulte <mkochsch@shaw.ca>
>Sent: Mar 17, 2006 9:28 AM
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: Shadow and High Key Contact Printing
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Koch-Schulte" <mkochsch@shaw.ca>
>To: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@ix.netcom.com>
>Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 8:25 AM
>Subject: Re: Shadow and High Key Contact Printing
>
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@ix.netcom.com>
>> To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
>> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 5:05 AM
>> Subject: Re: Shadow and High Key Contact Printing
>>
>>
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Michael Koch-Schulte" <mkochsch@shaw.ca>
>> > To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
>> > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 8:58 AM
>> > Subject: Shadow and High Key Contact Printing
>> >
>> >
>> > >I stumbled across the terms Shadow Printing and High Key
>> > >printing in the context of making contact negatives (ok
>> > >I'll admit it, it's part of a workshop that, for logistical
>> > >reasons, I'll never be able to attend). Is this a new idea
>> > >or an old one? Can someone explain this technique and
>> > >theory in general terms? Does it involve making two or more
>> > >seps instead of a single negative?
>> > >
>> > > ~m
>> > >
>> > Do you know if this is in reference to Photoshop
>> > manipulation? Presumably, it is. I've found a couple of
>> > references using Google. These are about modifying the curve
>> > of the image so that either highlights or shadows dominate,
>> > i.e. distorting the gray scale. This is not quite what the
>> > terms "high key" and "low key" mean in traditional
>> > photography. The traditional meaning refers to the scene
>> > itself, high key being one where bright areas predominate,
>> > low key being one where shadows predominate, but due to the
>> > tones and lighting of the original scene rather than to
>> > distortion of the gray scale.
>> > Of course, the terms may mean something else here.
>> > Perhaps some version of the multiple exposure system that
>> > was used with the old half-tone method of makign printing
>> > plates. In this separate shadow and highlight exposures were
>> > made with the addition of over all fogging exposures in
>> > order to control the tone reproduction.
>>
>
>Richard, et al.
>The below is an excerpt, the full text can be found on the main page of
>www.alternativephotography.com under "workshops. I believe the workshop is
>being hosted by the Formulary and is specifically talking about digital
>negatives. I was being deliberately vague on my initial post because I
>wanted unbiased feedback hence my use of the term "general". Dick Arentz and
>Mark Nelson are co-hosting. I guess the question going through my head is if
>the curve's job to produce a perfect analog of what one sees on the screen,
>why would there be a need to manipulate the negative any further? What
>benefit is there to producing a negative (and a new curve) specifically for
>an image where the emphasis is "shadows" or "highlights".
>
>Thanks,
>~m
>
> " ...Students will learn to master the interaction of manipulations of PT/
>PD chemistry with manipulations of the digital negative to make unique
>prints that match their vision?including ?shadow printing?, high key
>printing, digital negatives with hybrid curves that match the monitor image
>or how an in-camera negative would print and everything in between, and how
>to achieve softness or edge sharpness in an image or both. All of these
>methods have been designed to retain all the original richness of the image
>when shot and translate it into the print."
>
Received on Fri Mar 17 09:40:18 2006

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