Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/10

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Subject: [Leica] Before Photoshop
From: richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:27:23 -0800
References: <200912091430.CBT51628@rg4.comporium.net> <7ac27f4f0912091324i400c0fefq4a06657edef50db1@mail.gmail.com> <3cad89990912091900rc02b944teb09818ebf1664c4@mail.gmail.com> <7ac27f4f0912091914m4072c6f8mf357462a50e7ccc8@mail.gmail.com> <20091210145231.GA78836@d242.scdc1.swarthmore.edu> <ee8fa51c0912101911q65a07d90q719499983076aee6@mail.gmail.com>

Great clip! She just slaps the prints around and not drips the
previous solution off?


On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> When I did printing work I would often get diagrams like this. ?At
> first it's not that easy to figure out what order to do them in. ?But
> you get there. ?I'd bet, however, that bet Avedon's printer was better
> than me.
>
> The worst, though, was a client who really loved the really high
> highlight contrast of Ilford Multigrade III. ?When MG IV came out and
> had lower highlight contrast he switched to Forte Polycontrast V and
> had me print everything a bit darker in the highlights and then bleack
> them back. ?After 20 or so prints it was excruciating. ?I also bet
> that a video of me printing like this would look nowhere near as
> elegant and almost ballet-like as the one of Nathalie Lopparelli:
> http://www.laboratoire-tirages-argentiques.com/prestation-eng.html
>
> Marty

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