On 5 Apr 2005 at 23:20, William Robb wrote: > If you have a complicated printing regime for a > particular negative, that you have arrived at through many hours of printing > test after test after test, you have put the creative input into the process. > After that, you have to repeat the same set of steps on every print, and have > every step close enough to the guide that any differences are not visible to > the > naked eye. Printing multiple identical pictures is a mechanical process once > you > have gotten the process right, getting that first print right can be a very > complicated creative process.
And this is why you go into the cave in the evening and come back out mid morning the next day (with a handful of print), because you can't stop and come back to it. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
