Up to your usual high standards, Endre. I looked at your series - it is very impressive and the exhibit should be stunning. I'm curious, 'tho, what type of printing and what paper you will chose for presentation in the exhibit. I find it very difficult to reproduce on paper the luminance of an image as seen on a good monitor, and luminance is an outstanding feature of this set of images.
Jul 07, 2009 at 05:24 AM
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Thanks, so much, Cal! I'm so glad you like it and that you had a chance to see the series as it is developing. As to printing, I have several options. For my previous exhibit - all of which were in vivid color - I printed them via the Durst Lambda printing technique. There is only one place here in LA that does it and it is quite expensive. In a nutshell they take a digital file and the various photographic color emulsions are sprayed onto photo paper by a very fine printer (at least 400 DPI). Then, that paper is developed as if it were a standard color print. The results are quite stunning. Since then, though, I've had a lot of success with printing at WHCC. They do beautiful work and have a variety of print types. I'm even considering that for the B & W images that I might use their printing onto foil paper. I have to see what it looks like but I hear that for B & W it is an extraordinarily beautiful process since the underlying foil gives it a deep luminance. I'm well aware of the problem of getting luminance into my photos but so far, most of the results of my printing have been quite satisfactory.
All the best,
Endre
CalW wrote:
Up to your usual high standards, Endre. I looked at your series - it is very impressive and the exhibit should be stunning. I'm curious, 'tho, what type of printing and what paper you will chose for presentation in the exhibit. I find it very difficult to reproduce on paper the luminance of an image as seen on a good monitor, and luminance is an outstanding feature of this set of images.
