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Editorial Review:
Distilled from over thirty years experience and addressing both black-and-white and color printing, Post Exposure's purpose is to teach photographers the refinements of photographic printmaking, taking them from making merely competent prints to making excellent ones. Post Exposure provides clear explanations of principles and theory, but the focus is on practical techniques and examples of fine printmaking. Post Exposure contains numerous photographic prints, including sixteen pages of color. Covers the producing of prints with various enlarger heads Updated "Tricks of the Trade" covering safelight fogging, adequate wash steps in reversal print processing, and litho film masks for dodging and burning in Expanded coverage on how to do split-filter printing, how to use Sistan and color film masking
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
A darkroom technician's stream of thoughts
The author has collected a number of articles he has written, many already published in various magazines over the years, and has reworked them with some new material. Since Ctein is an excellent technician, for readers who enjoy deep discussions for some of the more technical side of traditional drakroom work, the collected subject will be interesting, but this is not comprehesive in the way of a "how to do it" manual. Some parts, like the "this is my darkroom" chapter could have been omitted, but it's... more info
just started to read
if all the information after page 20 is as valuable as what i have read i will say that this is one of the top books on the subject..not for the begining photographer...some darkroom work really adds impact to this book
An indispensable photographic printmaker introduction
Now in an updated and expanded second edition, Post Exposure: Advanced Techniques For The Photographic Printer continues to be an indispensable photographic printmaker introduction and reference to the underlying principles and practices needed to produce professional quality photography prints. The clear text fully and cogently explains all of the principles and theories, with a "user friendly" focus on practical techniques illustrated with a number of examples of fine printmaking. All aspects of... more info
Full of tips for the serious printmaker
Do you know how to make an unsharp mask for your color negatives? How to evaluate your enlarging lens? Why your variable-contrast prints might be unsharp? These are just three of the unique tips I could found on Ctein's book and that made it worth its price but the whole book, from cover to cover, is superb reading material.
Although the book is assembled from seemingly disconnect articles, it is an out of the ordinary collection of techniques focused on improving your darkroom work.
