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Subject: [Leica] Before Photoshop
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:20:17 +1030
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>She just slaps the prints around and not drips the
>previous solution off?

Nathalie is as good a b&w printer as anyone.  Anything that she does
that looks casual is the result of vast repetition.  If I tried to
handle large FB prints like she does, I would hopelessly crease them.
I'm sure you'd find she is just very careful about frequently
replacing the solutions.  That's quicker than a lot of waiting for the
print to drip off.

>I presume she's bleaching when she uses the brush or Q-tip and then
>quickly washing it off. Amazing!!!

Yes, that's bleach.

Marty


On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Richard Man <richard.lists at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> 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
>>
>
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