Digital BW, The Print

On 10/31/03 11:47 AM, "Alan Zinn" <AZinn@...> wrote:

> 
> Jvee,
> 
> I enjoyed your web page - loverly work!   Unlike the conventionally sought
> air-dried, silver print Holy Grail I am on a quest for the fine art print
> look such as your carbon prints. Do you feel you have reached that with
> your quad output?  By that I mean surface, material quality, authority -
> not necessarily similarity in appearance to carbon prints.

Thanks so much for the kind words.  Many of my images are printed both ways
and so I also compare.  Yes, the output is comparable aesthetically, but
subtly different to the trained eye. There is more freedom of printing
expression with traditional Carbon since you make a pigment mixture
individually that ³fits² the image.  Another difference is the presence of a
³relief² (thin = hi tones, thick = deeper tones) that you can literally feel
with you fingers on many prints.  All this said, the quad black prints of
the same images, in my case usually on Hahnamuhle photo rag, have a ³smooth²
sophisticated beauty of their own and the differences are not visible once
under glass.  Further, most of these images start in an 11 X 14 camera and
are drum scanned.  I love to quad (or 11 color) print some of them to 48² by
about 62².  Now if someone would only buy these big prints.  J Vee
www.jvee.com   


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