Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]These notes are from the photographer, not the printer. They mark up a proof like this and then the really fine tuning starts. Marty On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Tarek Charara <tcharara at mac.com> wrote: > 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