Darkroom vs Scanning

[Califmike33]

Inkjet or darkroom print irrelevant whatever gets you to your end goal and makes you happy that's all that matters end of story.

[brucetaylor]

It took 25 pages, but you came to the correct conclusion! Enjoy however you choose to make and display your images.

[Califmike33]

I guess better late than never I guess 25 pages isn't too bad.

[Sal Santamaura]

...I guess 25 pages isn't too bad.

Go to your settings and select more posts per page. I have only five pages in this thread.

[Califmike33]

Can you guys tell me if this is a digital photograph or if it's film.

[Tin Can]

Obviously DIGI as it is on my computer

Can you guys tell me if this is a digital photograph or if it's film.

[Califmike33]

Ha ha

[Michael R]

Can you guys tell me if this is a digital photograph or if it's film.

Obviously film. You can tell right away because of the continuous tonality function, lack of clinicalisticality which also means this was a film without conspiratorial tabular grains, and the expressiveness of the eyes. It also was obviously developed in pyro. You can tell right away from the gloriousitudinals in the rendering of the shirt.

[Alan Klein]

Can you guys tell me if this is a digital photograph or if it's film.

It's oversharpened whatever the materials. I could drive a tractor through the furrows on his forehead.

[Drew Wiley]

Calfmike - I can't tell if that was made by a digital printer, was made in the darkroom, or represents a rubber stamp and inkpad. Trying to evaluate such distinctions in a teeny tiny fuzzy web presence makes about as much sense as trying to saw down an oak tree with a fingernail file. Even the scanning and sharpening method for sake of the web might obscure much of what preceded that. Such approaches to objective comparison are worthless. There is simply no substitute for looking at real prints.