Your prefered hybrid workflow?

Bromo33333 · Oct 21, 2006

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

AAA (pure analog)

ADA (analog input, digital darkroom, analog print)

ADD (analog input, digital darkroom, digital print)

DDD (pure digital)

DDA (digital input, digital darkroom, analog print)

I myself tend toward #2 and #3, but of course I occassionally also do #4

I currently prefer AAA or ADD, though I can do DDD.

mawz · Oct 21, 2006

ADD primarily, with DDD as my second most common option.

I rarely do some AAA.

Peter Langham · Oct 30, 2006

ben-s · Oct 31, 2006

This thread seems quite interesting.
I normally do AAA, and DDD, with some ADD (proofing B&Ws, and printing trannies). Before I got the enlarger, I did ADA for a while.
I may well be using DDA on a project I have on at the moment.

kejack · Oct 31, 2006

For me, mostly ADD, working toward doing mostly ADA (someday), and a little DDD every now and then.

cheers,
Ken

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

AAA (pure analog)

ADA (analog input, digital darkroom, analog print)

ADD (analog input, digital darkroom, digital print)

DDD (pure digital)

DDA (digital input, digital darkroom, analog print)

I myself tend toward #2 and #3, but of course I occassionally also do #4

digiconvert · Nov 11, 2006

Baxter Bradford said:
Being a Maths teacher too, it seems appropriate to ADD

Being a maths teacher in urban comps I would never let colleagues know I sufferred from ADD

On the topic itself I guess I am AAA for BW but ADD for chromes/transparencies.

troutmask · Nov 12, 2006

I was refered here from APUG as I asked a question about a digital enlarger, I asked this because to me the huge problem presently with working digitally is the ouput where the major choice is between a commercial LAB print of awful paper with flat tones (in B&W) or an ink jet, which can be just OK with a lot of work but for obvious reasons (despite what some manufacturers say) can never match a darkroom print and isn't a "photographic" (it dosen't use light to make the print) technique.
My two methods of making a photograph are
Digital Capture
Ink Jet Output (which is analog by the way, it is ink on paper not numbers, not digital)
or
Film Capture
Darkroom Print.

I wish to combine the two
Digital capture
Darkroom output.

Bob Carnie · Nov 12, 2006

Metro Imaging in London UK will make fibre prints from digital files for you on the new Harmon Digital Fibre Base Papers.
Picto in France will do this as well.

troutmask said:
I was refered here from APUG as I asked a question about a digital enlarger, I asked this because to me the huge problem presently with working digitally is the ouput where the major choice is between a commercial LAB print of awful paper with flat tones (in B&W) or an ink jet, which can be just OK with a lot of work but for obvious reasons (despite what some manufacturers say) can never match a darkroom print and isn't a "photographic" (it dosen't use light to make the print) technique.
My two methods of making a photograph are
Digital Capture
Ink Jet Output (which is analog by the way, it is ink on paper not numbers, not digital)
or
Film Capture
Darkroom Print.

I wish to combine the two
Digital capture
Darkroom output.

wirehead · Nov 17, 2006

because I suffer from it.... ADD (although the output is generally to RA-4 paper, not inkjet)

troutmask · Nov 19, 2006

Thanks for the link, I think I will give Metro a try.

Jack_Flesher · Nov 27, 2006

Well I am ADD too, but my workflow is currently about 70% DDD and 30% ADD.

Mark Fisher · Nov 28, 2006

Well, I started AAA like most of us. Moved to ADD, but I never was happy with the inkjet output. It was OK, but for me, it just seemed to lack soul (and a decent black ). Now, I am either ADA or DDA meaning a digital negative to an alternative process. Well, OK, I also moved back to the wet darkroom and work AAA also. I think I now have the best of all worlds.

jd callow · Dec 1, 2006

wirehead said:
because I suffer from it.... ADD (although the output is generally to RA-4 paper, not inkjet)

I think that would qualify as A(film)D(processing)A(output)

Steve Bell · Dec 5, 2006

ADD, but I do miss the smell of the darkroom.

wilsonneal · Apr 27, 2007

I would like to hear from people who were DDA, particularly with Platinum, Palladium or Kallitype as an end product. I am thinking about buying a printer to make digi-negs and using a Canon 20D for capture. Anyone doing this?
Neal

SusanV · May 2, 2007

MAGNAchrom said:
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?

Good question. I'm a painter-printmaker who has moved into photography as
an end result now, instead of just reference for my other work. Traditionally,
artworks created with several different mediums as you suggest, have been
called "mixed media", as in an etching with some hand coloring, or a pastel
that begins with a watercolor wash to establish undertones.

The work I'm doing now is ADveryA ( film neg >> scan and adjust then output
inkjet positive to expose photopolymer plate to UV >> then use plate to make
traditional etching with intaglio press (very analog ) )

I started out many years ago AAA, and still enjoy the darkroom a lot. Digital
capture is getting very tempting though... :rolleyes:

Susan

toyotadesigner · May 4, 2007

AAA 10% (color -> subcontractor with a professional lab, up to 60x90 cm)
ADD 90% (color -> scanning inhouse, printing up to 40x60 inhouse, larger formats the professional lab)

Is there any other way to capture than analog?

KD5NRH · Apr 28, 2008

I'm looking at a bit of an odd workflow; since it'll be a while before I have room for an enlarger, (rent house with a badly laid-out bathroom and no other rooms even close to light-tight enough to try) I'm stuck with ADD (analog up until scanning the negs) but I want to get to the point of doing AAA, AAD, and once I can afford a digital camera better than my current point & hope-for-the-best Samsung S730, all of the above.

Daniel Balfour · Apr 28, 2008

ADA All the Way!!

keithwms · Apr 28, 2008

AAA
ADA
ADD
DDD
DDA

sanking · Apr 29, 2008

ADA, with the final A usually a carbon transfer print.

Some ADD, with the final D a color print with pigment inks.

Sandy King

Russ - SVP · Dec 31, 2009

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