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Black and White Magic - part 3 of 1 2 3

by Winston Ingram Published 01/02/2001

That leaves one final question: the choice of paper. The advantage of multi-grade resin coated papers is of course; you don't need to stock so much paper. You only need a stock the difference sizes, but sometimes you might require a finish which is not available in multi-grade, because there are far more finishes available with fibre based papers, so that would determine your choice. I think now days though, that the emulsion on the paper is so good on either that it doesn't really make any difference to prints. Some die-hards still seem to think that fibre based graded paper will give better contrast than multi-grade resin coated paper, but I cannot agree.

My criteria for the perfect exposure, is that it's got to be client acceptable. To me there is no such thing as the perfect print, you can always have it a fraction darker or lighter, but if you know in your mind that it is acceptable to your client, then that should be good enough.

As chief examiner for the Society I hope to see some really creative and original black and white entries for competition and examination and hopefully some, which have been printed by the photographer as well as taken by him or her.

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