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Summary: Raymond's rating
Review: For the novice, this book could be a little bit too much advanced. For the seasonal (but serious) dark room user, plentiful advices are available, yet the author seems to be in a hurry to go to some points that do not add up in creativity. Well written, I would quote that book as a seasonal reference. The technical side is usefull.
I would believe that the author has a very good knowledge for handling toning procedures. Yet, it's useless to try to give a better rendition by toning an inappropriately printed image.Should it be rewritten, the goal should be to give more details on toning, and suggests that it is for advanced photo printers.
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Summary: Excellent! Very Comprehensive and easy to understand
Review: I am an amature photographer who wanted to get into printing my photos. This book was the foundation of my learning. It was very comprehensive and easy to understand. I found that it was technical enough to make you understand the principles, yet pragmatic enough to use immediatly. Mr. Rudman has done a great service to the photographic community.
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Summary: Example or really good book on advance printing
Review: I am quite new to Black and White printing (that is I do my own printing but I am not professional). I am amazed by the wealth of information given in this book on toning, bleaching, multiple printing and so on. Furthermore you could really see what author mean by showing photographs before and after using some bleaching toning or other technics. And photographs by itself don't feel to be unnatural, in a sense, that most of them show some grain in much or less degree depending on used techinics. Of course, some photographers who like gradual soft sort of photography may not like Rudman's harsh contrasty style of depicting nature, but who cares, it's his artistic expression. He could really explain how he got one or another effect. By the way, if at the end you don't like this book you may leave it for the simple fact of its attractiveness. It could serve you as nice coffee table book, quality is superb. Excellent book.
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Summary: Example or really good book on advance printing
Review: I am quite new to Black and White printing (that is I do my own printing but I am not professional). I am amazed by the wealth of information given in this book on toning, bleaching, multiple printing and so on. Furthermore you could really see what author mean by showing photographs before and after using some bleaching toning or other technics. And photographs by itself don't feel to be unnatural, in a sense, that most of them show some grain in much or less degree depending on used techinics. Of course, some photographers who like gradual soft sort of photography may not like Rudman's harsh contrasty style of depicting nature, but who cares, it's his artistic expression. He could really explain how he got one or another effect. By the way, if at the end you don't like this book you may leave it for the simple fact of its attractiveness. It could serve you as nice coffee table book, quality is superb. Excellent book.
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Summary: Photographs reflects a personal taste
Review: I don't agree with one of the reviewers of this book about the quality of photographs being included. Off course this is a personal taste, hence no discussion about that. However they illustrate the idea quite well, which is the most important thing. I find this book as an excellent reference book. It is full of knowledge and experience.
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Summary: The benchmark for beginners and Pro's.
Review: My first attempts in the darkroom were some 31 years ago and I purchased many,many books to discover the how and why of black and white printing. I still have all those books, BUT now that I have Tim Rudman's book in my new darkroom the others gather dust. This book is the benchmark for beginners and Pro's.
Thank you Amazon for making it available.
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Summary: A good ongoing reference book
Review: My first impression when reading the "text" of this book is that Mr. Rudman clearly understands the various ways to impact the final result of an image from start to finish. It left me with much to think about and opened my head up to possiblities that I had not previously been aware of (much less tried). To that end I applaud Mr. Rudman.The one thing that left me a little cold about the book is probably more a matter of taste on my part. I found the examples of the prints to be very heavy, grainy and dark. To be fair, this could have occurred in the reprinting of his work for the book but, for a professional, experience printer, unexceptable.
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Summary: A Book for a person who wants to learn about BW Printing
Review: The book find useful for every photographer (or even a printer) to learn more about black and white processing and printing. The theory is little bit advanced but if you read again and again you will understand finally how it works. The photos are beautiful. Very very arty. I'm a black and white photographer and printer and this book is my holly bible.
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Summary: excellent reference
Review: The only thing that I can find that might be seen as a negative about this book is that Tim seems to print a little darker than i like. Other than that this is without a doubt the best book on printing that I have ever read. From the first chapter on how to properly set up your enlarger through the back cover this book is all usefull. If you want to improve your printing skills this book is a must have! (...)
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Summary: Excellent manual, Superb photography.
Review: This is a perfect combination of Technique and Art so rarely acieved these days.
The book covers advanced printing techniques (such as toning, burning/dodging, flashing, etc) better than any other book I have seen (I have seen a few). And it is all done with a sense of artistic purpose: you get to see why the Artist chooses to use one or another technique. This is an incredible book for those who want to improve their B&W printing, and even for those who simply love good photography: the book is full of excellent photographs
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