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Re: Coatings and Mark Tucker Images

2002-11-25 by dsantoli

Mark,

After looking at the Atlanta Roadtrip images for a while I noticed
an artifact that shows up in a couple of images.  That, along with
Lawrence's reply had me thinking filter or Photoshop layer.  Then I
saw Colin's reply which seems to make a lot of sense.  Thanks for the
hint and the new images.

Doug Santoli

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Mark Tucker" <mark@m...> 
wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "dsantoli" 
> <dsantoli@y...> wrote:
> Is this achieved through the hand 
> > coating process that has been discussed previously?  If so, is
> > this done with several uneven coats? Just curious, Thanks.
> 
> ------
> 
> Let's just say it's not the coating, 'cause those jpgs on the web 
> are straight digital files; they're not copyshots of actual prints. 
> Let's just also say that it's super-easy to get that effect if you 
just 
> think about a while. And they're not brush strokes. If I was that 
> good with brush strokes I wouldn't be a photographer...
> 
> I can't bring myself to just dump the solution so easily. Write me 
> back when you figure it out. It shouldn't take anybody more than 
> five minutes to guess.
> 
> -MT, http://marktucker.com/
> 
> PS. And to Miquel: I was the one who made the "uncool" 
> comment on the 9000 list. It was not anything to do with you. 
> There is a generally accepted courtesy that you don't come on 
> one maillist and blatantly advertise another maillist, in some way 
> to suck people away. There have been certain people who have 
> done that repeatedly on the 9000 list; my comment was 
> somewhat addressing that issue. Nothing at all that you've done. 
> You're doing great -- keep reading, and keep asking questions.

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