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Cool tone print developers vs other processes
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Lew wrote: Just getting back from Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand at the Met. I'm completely blown away by the difference between the wonderful deep tones of the gum over platinum prints vs the gs prints, including the ones made by Steiglitz himself. There's such a visible difference between the washed out greys of the gs and the velvety blacks of the other processes! I would be somewhat concerned if any process produced a result in which there were no visible difference between washed out greys and velvety blacks. ;-) I assume what you mean is that the darkest black was darker in some of the alternative-process prints you saw than in the gelatin-silver ones. One thing worth considering is that the maximum density of gelatin-silver enlarging paper, by the year 2000, was about twice what it may have been when those prints were made. That may not account for the entire difference you are seeing, but it probably accounts for some of it. -- Thor Lancelot Simon "We cannot usually in social life pursue a single value or a single moral aim, untroubled by the need to compromise with others." - H.L.A. Hart |
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