Your prefered hybrid workflow?

MAGNAchrom

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Borrowing terminology from the audio arena I wonder just how many of us so-called "hybrid" photographers use any of the following workflows:

  1. AAA (pure analog)
  2. ADA (analog input, digital darkroom, analog print)
  3. ADD (analog input, digital darkroom, digital print)
  4. DDD (pure digital)
  5. DDA (digital input, digital darkroom, analog print)
I myself tend toward #2 and #3, but of course I occassionally also do #4
 

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Predominantly AAA, but occasional AAD. By that I mean that the digital work I do is intended to get the result as close as possible to a wholly analog print, not to improve upon the picture.
 

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I guess I'm a 2.
I shoot film, create a digital negative and print analog (kallitype or sometimes bromoil)
I did shoot digital for a year or two but went back to film, but I still print some of those shots, so in that case, it's DDA.
Tom
 

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Before I got my darkroom, I was #3 - analog/digital/digital. Never completely satisfied with B&W reproduction on my Epson 2200, though, so I've kept that only for color reproductions from film. It does color nicely, and I prefer doing that at home than paying for prints.

For B&W work, it's now pure analog!
 

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My wife once accussed me of having AADD. Does that count?

Don Bryant
 

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AAA
ADA
DDA

every so often I'll do ADD or DDD, but those are rarities.
 

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AAA, occasionally a negative scan, that makes me a AAS I presume!

Cheers

Andr?
 

David A. Goldfarb

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Mostly AAA with an occasional ADD (usually color transparency/drum scan/Chromira).
 
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Andr said:
AAA, occasionally a negative scan, that makes me a AAS I presume!
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Well if you scan a negative and print digitally, then it would be ADD.

However if you scan a negative and print with some analog process (e.g. Fuji Crystal Archive or perhaps use digital negs for contact printing) then you would be using ADA.

So what would we call a process wherein you print digitally but then manually add paint/tones/washes/pencil to the print? is that ADA?? or something else?
 

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I work ADD - I shoot 99.9% film, prefer digital color to darkroom color (much more control), always proof b+w digitally and make final output onto watercolor-type papers but still have a b+w darkroom to make fine prints on glossy (unglazed) FB paper.
 

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MAGNAchrom said:
Well if you scan a negative and print digitally, then it would be ADD.
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I don`t print digitally, just use the scanner as an assistance device, to see what`s on my negative before I print it (A) or not, I don`t own any kind of inkjet device!

Cheers

Andr?
 

David A. Goldfarb

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MAGNAchrom said:
However if you scan a negative and print with some analog process (e.g. Fuji Crystal Archive or perhaps use digital negs for contact printing) then you would be using ADA.
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Hmmm... I think of LightJet/Lambda/Chromira prints as still digital, even though the paper and chemistry is traditional, I suppose because the image is formed by a laser or LED directly from a digital file. It's not like a traditional print from a digital negative (what I think of as ADA), where you could substitute a traditional negative for the digital negative. On the other hand, what does one call prints made with something like the DeVere digital enlarger, which uses traditional projection of a virtual image formed on an LCD panel directly from a file? Maybe it's better to call all such things "hybrid" or just call them by specific names ("digital C-print," "digital silver gelatin projection print," etc.).
 

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i need to print out this "code" to keep up
 

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ADA or AAA for black and white, DDA for color, with some ADA once in a while. I'm looking for a better b&w print from digital file. I got some samples of the b&w Ilford prints that MPix does. They look nice and I plan on trying them. B&W on Fuji Crystal Archive just isn't good enough, though I have sold several 11x14's.

Doug
 
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