[Leica] City Lights for a kiss

[Lluis Ripoll]

Hi Don,

Thank you very much for looking and your comments. I find very interesting your comment to start a good fiscussion (if I have the time :-). Every one of us we have our preferences, on my case I prefer the wode range of grey tones, however when it’s make a wet copy the tones are better represented than in a monitor, maybe I will burn a little bit the background area to enhance the couple, but in my opinion printing techniques will be not exactly as the dark tones that the Genious and Master Eugene Smith does, it depends more of the exposure and development than the printing techniques, if you want dark the tones using only printing techniques the highlights will probably look as grey tones instead a brilliant white. Smith had a very special technique, as you know normally the developersdilutions are 1:2 or 1:3, he did 2:1 !!!, he place the exposure one zone minus and develop for one zone more, for this reason his pictures show these rich dark tones and brilliant highlights, he say that he used usually the Farmers reductor to obtain better highlights, in the famous funeral photo he worked all the faces like this. His darkroom work was extraordinary, the Dr. Schweizer picture he took 5 days and 5 nights to do it, it had about 125 steps, finally he did a picture of the final print and he reduced the steps to 25 and he was very happy!

All this and other techniques from Masters as Emmet Gowin I had the privilege to see his originals, are explained on te two book of the Editorial Lustrum, founded in 1973 by Ralph Gibson, these two books contents interviews with many Masters explaining their techniques, I really recommend them for the darkroom lovers.

Cheers
Lluis
 

> El 26 març 2024, a les 13:55, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> va escriure:
> 
> Great capture, I think that printed a little darker to influence the seeing
> as evening culmination of a great date.  Just my initial thoughts of a
> wonderful image.  Plus I've been examining the non dog images of Elliot
> Erwitt which have been printed to the dark side.  That and the images of
> Eugene Smith especially his loft project so my exposure has been to the
> dark side of prints.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 6:41 AM Lluis Ripoll via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/2024F030330.jpg.html>
>> Leica M6, Summilux 50 II, Tri-X 400, D-23 Stock
>> 
>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome
>> 
>> Saludos cordiales
>> Lluis
>> 
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