RE: [Leica] digital printing

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Chandos - I'm certainly not Tina, nor in her league...but...A couple of
thoughts/comments regarding your questions:

1. Most people today wouldn't know a silver print from Silverado. Black and
white is something they only see on the inside pages of newspapers or in
other crummy forms of reproduction. Thus anything that is quality black and
white is new and exciting to them.

2. I am finding that while I generally prefer the more photographic look of
prints produced on Epson Photo paper or the equivalent on my Epson 750, the
people I am trying to sell to are more taken by the softer look of prints on
140 lbs water color papers. It is a different look. It is, in effect, a
different art form. And I've noticed, by the way, that at some shows now I'm
starting to see photographers printing digitally and on different stocks,
making note of that on the descriptive card beneath their works.

Cheers - B. D.

http://www.a-day-in-our-life.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Chandos
> Michael Brown
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 1:56 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] digital printing
>
>
> Tina,
>
> I'm curious to know whether you intend to go digital for the
> prints that
> you sell? I ask for a couple of reasons.
>
> First: I've been offered two walls in a local hot restaurant
> (on the basis
> of small prints from the Epson 700).  I don't have a
> darkroom, nor easy
> access to one, so I'm upgrading the printer along the lines
> we've already
> discussed--and moving to archival inks and papers for the
> 'exhibition.'  Are you--or any other Luggers--exhibiting
> digital prints?
>
> Second: I'm exited by the possibilities of various ink/paper
> combinations
> and their application in 35mm photography--but I'm concerned
> about the
> 'resistance' this might encounter among folk who think of quality B&W
> photography as an entirely silver based process.  Have you
> encountered this
> attitude?  Have you thought about a response to it?
>
> I pose these questions generally to the LUG, but you seem to
> be a bit ahead
> on the digital curve.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Chandos
>
>
> Chandos Michael Brown
> Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies
> College of William and Mary
>
http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown