Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Steadman Uhlich" 
<steadmanuhlich@k...> wrote:
> What did you do to that image on the home page (the link you 
sent) to get that "aged look"  was that the image on canvas with 
varnish?


Steadman,

You know I love you and all. But sometimes a guy just needs his 
privacy. If'n I told you, it would invalidate so many things that I've 
said on this list.

OK...OK...When I see a wall texture, or some rust, or a funky wall, 
I photograph it straight on. I keep a folder of these hi-rez scans 
on my hard drive. In this case, I took the image of the barn, and 
then copied the layer, and then GaussianBlurred it using Darken 
in the Mode, and then added noise to that layer. Then I took that 
scan of the rust, or my office wall, or whatever it was, and then 
added that layer, using SoftLight mode. Then you see what ya 
got, then you go back in those underlying layers and boost the 
contrast.

Then add a TON of magenta to counteract the varnish! And print 
it on canvas. Someday, I'll get bold enough to work on the image 
by hand, locally, with a charcoal pencil.

Then I'll spray it all and call it Archival (yeah, right....). We are 
quickly leaving the area of photography, and entering 
printmaking 101, (something I know nothing about).

-MT

PS. If you live in Rochester, come to a lecture that we're giving at 
RIT tomorrow night at 7pm. There's a show there too with 36 
prints from my 7000. (Oh, God, the fear of metamerism....)