8 Evaluating and Correcting the Print
Once you’ve made your print, it’s time to take a look at it and to decide what to do next. It is a rare print that is perfect in every way the first time you print it. Are there any flaws? Is there anything you can do to make it better match your artistic intent, or just to make it better? And what sort of light should you use to actually look at it to answer these questions?
Quality doesn’t mean deep blacks or whatever tonal range. That’s not quality, that’s a kind of quality. . . . But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he’s doing, what his mind is. It’s not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It’s got to do with intention.
—ELLIOTT ERWITT
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