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Black-and-White Tonality
© Mike Johnston 2002

I'm a little schizophrenic these days. I just bought another new digicam. I'm quite high on it‚ I really enjoy shooting with the thing and I'm getting some marvelous results. I've been making a book of pictures for some friends and really enjoying myself.
I'm also continuing construction on my new darkroom. Digital can be beautiful; but conventional black-and-white is also beautiful. Too beautiful to abandon in the onrush of the new technology.
I got asked a question recently about how to test the variables in manipulating tonality with conventional black-and-white materials. Since this is topic that is widely misunderstood, I wanted to say a few words about it. So, this week at least, back to classic, traditional black-and-white.
Remember the Acronym: F-D-P
Some properties of black-and-white prints are overrated and some are underrated in the conventional wisdom. Everybody likes to talk about sharpness and grain, for instance. Almost ...

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