Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:46 AM 30/08/98 +0000, you wrote: >There is much to learn from the various ways in which they turned seemingly >mediocre shots into dramatic works of art. I'd second Dan's recommendation of this book. For B&W printing on variable contrast paper, it will show how you can tweak out a fine print by split-grade printing. Other books which are on the "must read" list for B&W are anything by Dr. Tim Rudman, especially "Photographic Master Printing Course." He's completing a new book on lith printing, and the last two issues of Camera Techniques offer some sneak previews on what might be expected in those. The title mentioned above has sold out, so you may have to check for it through an interlibrary loan. Also, see "Gradient Light -- The Art and Craft of using Variable Contrast Papers" by Eddie Ephraums. He works mainly with XP2 and Ilford Multigrade IV, and most of his prints are toned. These authors show the straight print before any darkroom manipulation, and the way the print appears after they have interpreted and printed the negative. The Ephraums book even shows the same scene photographed in colour and in B&W, which really helps if you to see the potential B&W possibilities of pictorial subject matter. - -GH