G- Blank wrote:

In article om,
"Scott W" wrote:

G- Blank wrote:
In article . com,
"Scott W" wrote:

wrote:
Here's a question that I haven't seen asked on the internet: how does
one become a master printer? I'm not looking for a quick recipe, but I
want to know what it takes. Is it a matter of getting a good
background in photography at a school, landing a job in a lab, honing
your craft for years, and building a reputation? I'd really appreciate
it if the printers out there could share how they did it. How did you
become a master printer?

Not going to blast you but,has nothing to do with "Darkroom unless
your sitting in one to post the following,
The point is that working with a scanned negative will help give a feel
for the density range that the negative has. When I scan negative I
normally scan it as if it was a positive and then convert it myself to
a positive image. I really think going through this exercise would
help a lot of people make better optical prints, or at least shoot
better negatives. When you scan a negative (as a positive) and you see
that the left side of the histogram is pretty much missing it gives you
a pretty good idea that this is going to be a hard negative to print.

Scott

I've thought this time to time, its a hard call in my book because part
of what make my prints good is intuitive I remember back to what I
intended while printing-IN the dark and mostly get it or get better. and
seeing the image on screen
can frighten many into not printing or may encourage many to say
THIS is as good as it get without the process of remembering what
was intended or seeing what the potential is -Not saying your wrong just
presenting a different "" MY View",

Never mind scotty is full of it. Want to
make a good print, better learn something
about sensitomerty, rather than scanners,
first...And yeah, that takes both time and
photo education (whether by reading or in
college classrooms...)