Gary Grenell
Member
Dear APUG printing fanatic friends:
I am deciding whether to print a black and white portfolio (basically outdoor street shots at a local park) on cold tone or warm-tone paper. I have been going back and forth on this, literally for months. I am making myself crazy with this. I have printed many of the portfolio photographs on both papers (Agfa MCC and Oriental or Kodak Polymax VC, both selenium toned) and neither set looks "bad."
As I go through photography books in the local bookstore, the great majority of monographs are published having printed on a warm-tone paper. (see below)
WARM-TONE
Diane Arbus: Revelations
Jock Sturges: The Last Days of Summer
Shelby Lee Adams: Appalachian Portraits
Henri C. Bresson: Photoportraits
Paul Strand: Aperture Monograph
Edward Boubat
Kristin Knapp: Hutterite
Sally Mann: Immediate Family
Mary Ellen Mark
Dorothea Lange
Martin Dain: Faulkners World
Peter Hujar
Sebastio Salgado: An Uncertain Grace
Leonard Freed
Martine Franck: One Day to the Next
Bruce Gilden: Haiti
COLD-TONE
Chris Rainier Where Masks Still Dance; Keepers of the Spirit
Of course, one may say its a matter of personal taste and preference. Yet, still it seems that many historically have gone the warm tone route. But take a look at Rainiers two monographs Gorgeous in Cold Tone!!
How can I decide??????????????????????
Thanks in advance, Gary
I am deciding whether to print a black and white portfolio (basically outdoor street shots at a local park) on cold tone or warm-tone paper. I have been going back and forth on this, literally for months. I am making myself crazy with this. I have printed many of the portfolio photographs on both papers (Agfa MCC and Oriental or Kodak Polymax VC, both selenium toned) and neither set looks "bad."
As I go through photography books in the local bookstore, the great majority of monographs are published having printed on a warm-tone paper. (see below)
WARM-TONE
Diane Arbus: Revelations
Jock Sturges: The Last Days of Summer
Shelby Lee Adams: Appalachian Portraits
Henri C. Bresson: Photoportraits
Paul Strand: Aperture Monograph
Edward Boubat
Kristin Knapp: Hutterite
Sally Mann: Immediate Family
Mary Ellen Mark
Dorothea Lange
Martin Dain: Faulkners World
Peter Hujar
Sebastio Salgado: An Uncertain Grace
Leonard Freed
Martine Franck: One Day to the Next
Bruce Gilden: Haiti
COLD-TONE
Chris Rainier Where Masks Still Dance; Keepers of the Spirit
Of course, one may say its a matter of personal taste and preference. Yet, still it seems that many historically have gone the warm tone route. But take a look at Rainiers two monographs Gorgeous in Cold Tone!!
How can I decide??????????????????????
Thanks in advance, Gary