Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I presume she's bleaching when she uses the brush or Q-tip and then quickly washing it off. Amazing!!! 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 > -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963