Digital BW, The Print

"Paul Whiting" <paulmwhiting@...> wrote:

 
> Tell us about the paper you used, and the framing... 
> was it under glass? I'm becoming less and less enamored 
> of glass myself.

The 16 x 20's I've made of the Disney Concert Hall are using my stantard Eboni-6 on Premier Art Smooth BW, and they are under acrylic.  The PA Smooth BW, when matted with a creamy natural paper mat board make the Disney Hall look metalic -- which, of course, it is.  I think it's the slightly high Lab A of the PA BW and the "selenium" look that may be doing it, but it really works.  The web images don't convey the full effect of this.

I may try the Arches un-coated with one of these images today, as well as seeing how the 5d2 file holds up at 22 x 28.  

My collection of un-usable scratched or defective acrylic grew in the process of framing these jet black sky images.  The last piece I had -- and had to use -- still was not perfect.  I hate the glazing, but I'm stuck with it for at least the large prints for a while.  

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com