wet darkroom vs. inkjet

[srbphoto]

Lenny & Drew - you are probably less than an hour from each other. Meet up. Lenny show him what you got and give us a report.

PS if there is any screaming, yelling and hair pulling please remember the video and post on Youtube. Thank you.

[Jim collum]

Lenny & Drew - you are probably less than an hour from each other. Meet up. Lenny show him what you got and give us a report.

PS if there is any screaming, yelling and hair pulling please remember the video and post on Youtube. Thank you.

another good source of excellent prints is Richard Lohmann ( http://www.richardlohmann.com/ ). He also mixes his own inks (works on them with Tom Mallonee http://www.tommallonee.com/ ). Richard is a long time silver and platinum printer (prints for platinum prints for the Imogen Cunningham Trust). He also lives in the Bay area

[srbphoto]

Richard started in the mid 90's making digital negs for platinum printing and then moved to full digital. He has some nice work.

I saw some of Tom's work about 7-8 years ago and was really blown away.
They were the first digital prints I saw that made me think "maybe..."

[chris_4622]

At one time Richard was using Efke 25 in Dr.5 and scanning. Is this still his method or is he using digital capture?

[ret wisner]

do you want to be a photographer or a digital inkjetter.
simple really

i personally use a darkroom and keep my inkjet for shouting practice

[Paul Kierstead]

do you want to be a photographer or a digital inkjetter.
simple really

Umm ... you do realize that is basically a non-sequitur, right? A photography takes pictures. A printer (man and/or machine) prints pictures. Many a photographer doesn't print, and a good number of printers I've known don't photography beyond their kids birthday, but I don't see how they are necessarily exclusive of each other.

[ret wisner]

hence why i said DIGITAL inkjetter, ie digital camera/scanner file.
aimed at original poster

photographer or digital inkjeter

simple they are quite different you know, hard to compare

[Gem Singer]

Ret, I don't understand your logic.

My present desire is to become a photographer who has mastered the skill required to produce a fine print with an inkjet printer.

I had the same desire when I was attempting to master the skill required to make a fine print with an optical enlarger in a darkroom.

[Paul Kierstead]

hence why i said DIGITAL inkjetter, ie digital camera/scanner file.
aimed at original poster

photographer or digital inkjeter

simple they are quite different you know, hard to compare

Well, they are hard to compare because they are unrelated.

[ret wisner]

i thought i was supposed to be responding to the original poster on this thread.

he is not sure on his direction

one route is a photographic route (darkroom)
another route is a inkjet (non photographic)

so putting it simply inkjetter or photography

theirs your choices

ive never liked the idea of calling myself a inkjetter