I shot a lot of photos for a poorly printed school newspaper when I was a teacher some 25 years ago. I found that normal to slightly high contrast prints that were slightly underexposed in the enlarger were best. This prevented heavy blacks, which tended to block up, but resulted in good overall reproduction. I would say the blacks in the print were about zone 3 with the highlights around zone 8. Paul Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > ... about the best way to make a print that will be reproduced in a > poorly printed newspaper. > > The quality of the reproduced photos in Street Spirit leave a lot to be > desired, and I don't yet know if the results are because of poor > printing of the paper or poor production work. I'd like my photos to > stand out and reflect, as much as possible, the quality that I put into > them. The editor prefers working with prints, and I was thinking that > the best way to make a print for this type of situation is to keep the > contrast and tonal range down, i.e., provide a somewhat "flat" print > with open shadows and Zone VII highlights. > > Any comments on this. > -- > Shel Belinkoff > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ > http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/darkroom-rentals/index.html > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
