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 B & W Portrait Gallery

Some thoughts on black and white:

Create a gallery of your own.  Add a touch of class to your living space by hanging exhibition-quality black and  white images.  Black and white adds a distinctive touch that can set your images apart. We particularly like black and white over-matted in museum-type frames. 

For many years quality black and white could only be produced by master printers using special papers, tricks and potions.  Most of the work you see in the Black and White Portrait Gallery was originally hand printed in our own darkroom from true black and white film.*  It was a labor of love, but...  

Digital has changed all that.  Using digital, today's photographers have more control and repeatability over the black and white process than their predecessors could have hoped for.  Images captured in color can be readily--but not mindlessly--converted into black and white, finessed to perfection, and then printed on professional photographic papers.  The results can be superb.   

* images appearing in the Black and White Portrait Gallery are primarily resolution-reduced scans from black and white negatives.

 

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