Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you're like me or anybody I've seen print (quite a few) those burning and dodging notes consisted of two or three circles with numbers in them. -- Mark R. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > From: Tarek Charara <tcharara at mac.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:55:40 +0100 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Magnum & the Dying Art of Darkroom Printing > > So? I like achieving similar results for a particular print and so I do > note > my dodging and burning on my final test prints. I would go crazy if I > didn't?Specially when doing limited edition prints and don't do the whole > batch at the same time. And IF I change papers, I usually start with the > results I noted and go from there. If I want to achieve a different > interpretation, I also start from that particular annotated print and try > new > stuff? It's not perfect, but sure is better than re-inventing the wheel > every > time. And ymmv? > > And as to time spent in the darkroom? 35 years here. But I must be a bit > younger? ;) > > All the best from Paris! > > Tarek > > ------------------------------------------------- > Tarek Charara > <http://www.tarekcharara.com> > > NO ARCHIVE > > > > > Le 8 mars 2012 ? 09:43, Mark Rabiner a ?crit : > >> Its just that I've over 4 decades printed and half my friends did the >> same. >> As in printed the same neg on different papers different times. Different >> sizes for different shows or clients. RC and or Fiber. C print or >> Cibachrome. And had our assistants do It and or a custom printer do it. >> Its scintillating horsepucky. >> >> -- >> Mark R. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ >> >> >>> From: Tarek Charara <tcharara at mac.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:12:33 +0100 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Magnum & the Dying Art of Darkroom Printing >>> >>> You'd have to make those note at some final stage so that you don't start >>> the >>> whole trial and error process all over again. years later when you need >>> to >>> print again. >>> >>> All the best from Paris! >>> >>> Tarek >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------- >>> Tarek Charara >>> <http://www.tarekcharara.com> >>> >>> NO ARCHIVE >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Le 8 mars 2012 ? 06:06, Mark Rabiner a ?crit : >>> >>>> I cant figure out if this is an example of a kind of obsesive compulsive >>>> psychosis or an attempt at humor. There is also a famous one of a head >>>> from >>>> Avedon. An image marked up way past any reason or comprehension. >>>> I'll tell you what I think it is its drugs in the 80's. >>>> But it might be Public relations. Your clients are supposed to think >>>> that >>>> even though you yourself are not making the prints the relation between >>>> you >>>> and your assistant or printer is so involved that its worth all the >>>> ridiculous money they are paying you for the job and or print. >>>> >>>> In reality when you go through sheets and sheets of paper in the >>>> darkroom >>>> its a rather organic process of trial and error. And you cant be >>>> reminded >>>> of >>>> it from a mark up or controlled by someone giving you a marked up thing >>>> like >>>> that. The printer has to sweat it out themselves. Adams called it a >>>> performance of a score. But your head is not buried in the score. You >>>> have >>>> to look up from time to time and cue your orchestra. >>>> -- >>>> Mark R. >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information