Graded paper printing techniques book?

[rob champagne]

Ha!

Found as many as you like for as low as £1.11

www.abebooks.co.uk

amazon is expensive:o

[dancqu]

Can anyone recommend any books on printing techniques
for black and white graded paper. thanks

Off hand I'd say you will find no printing techniques used
with Graded paper which are not equally applicable to
use with VC papers.

So, VC paper users should also take note. My impression
after reading many posts is that at least some VC users
believe filter manipulation to be the only method for
controlling over all and local contrast. Dan

[Sparky]

Ansel Adams' "The Print" should not be left out.

Actually - wouldn't 'the negative' be FAR more applicable to the general concept of printing on graded papers...? I mean- it's the whole raison d'être of the zone system to begin with...!

[Ole]

You're right Sparky - Adams' "The Negative" and Mortensens "On the Negative" are essential, too - but the print books are also useful.

Now that I've mentioned Adams and Mortensen in the same sentence (twice), will the thread explode?

[Sparky]

Well - I was just saying that if you already print VC papers successfully -that a book like 'the negative' will probably help you with contrast control more than the 'printing books' might.

[haziz]

I would second the vote for Ansel's entire series as well as Fred Picker's Zone VI Workshop. The Picker book is also compact and a good read.

Sincerely,

Hany.