On 3/29/06, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Loveless wrote: > > >I think Don wrote that second part. All I did was call him a heretic. > > I'm with you on the monitor/printer calibration dance. ;-) > > Yeah, but isn't it great when you get all that calibration stuff done?
God, I hope so! > I can now tweak the levels of an image in Photoshop and run off prints > without even running a proof first (unless I'm being anal-retentive > for a very important job). And being able to save local adjustments > (the equivalent of dodging and burning in the darkroom) and not having > to repeat them for every subsequent print... that's icing on the cake! > > I do all my own black & white stuff - even from scanned film - > digitally now. I only use the wet darkroom when I'm printing artsy > stuff to sell. I'm really starting to get into wet printing again (after a decade+ hiatus) and I'm experiencing the same kinda thing. Exposure, development times, agitation, the developer itself - and that's just the film. I get to do it all over again with the print. Lamp positioning, head alignment, tension on the column, blahblahblah. I finally, FINALLY, got an even illumination on the enlarger base, so I'm pretty stoked. I guess it's really the same thing, but I prefer to tinker with something physical. All my nonsense about heretics and traitors is just that, nonsense, and intended to be tongue-in-cheek. To expand things a bit, and hopefully not inflame anyone, one of the reasons I have chosen not to put much effort into learning the digital "workflow" is that Photoshop, or rather image editing, gives me a headache. Ten to fourteen hours a day in front of a monitor is not uncommon for me. It's also not headache inducing on most days. But after about thirty minutes of cleaning up dust spots, fiddling with highlights/shadows and contrast, my eyeballs feel like they're about to explode. It's physically painful. I've found the red light in the darkroom (bathroom, really) much more comfortable. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com -- "You have to hold the button down" -Arnold Newman
