Re: Levels & Curves

[byard pidgeon <bluedove@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, I've gotta jump in again...

I was a photographic professional in various capacities, from
photolithography technician to fine artist, for 25 years, until the
chemistry finally got to me.

From 1991 on, I haven't been able to work in a darkroom, and until the past
year, I haven't felt the difital print technology was up to what I was able
to do with the chemistry.

This year, I happily realized I could make a print I was satisfied
with...I'm not using a consumer grade printer, though, but a ColorSpan
Esprit.

Do I tell people it's an "inkjet" print...no...I tell them it's "giclee".

Let's be real...if a conventional print can be called a "gelatin silver
print" because that's the hoity-toity artsy terminology...well, "giclee" is
the term for fine art inkjet prints.


on 12/24/2001 08:59 PM, rafeb@adelphia.net at rafeb@adelphia.net wrote:

> On 24 Dec 2001 at 17:27, David J. Bookbinder wrote:
> 
>> I've had two incarnations as a photographer. The first
>> was as a mostly black and white photographer during the late 60s and
>> throughout the 70s, and everything was, of course, all chemical. The second
>> has begun only this year, and it's all digital. But the process feels
>> essentially the same. I think of the things I take with my digital camera
>> and print on my inkjet printer as photographs. What else could they be?
> 
> 
> Your story rings true, David.  I've never been a pro photographer,
> but it was pretty much that way for me.  Epson inkjet printers and
> inexpensive film scanners brought me back into an intense avocation
> that had been dormant for 25 years or so.
> 
> I'm not exactly sure where gary's coming from with this criticism
> of inkjet prints, and/or those who sell them.
> 
> 
> 
> rafe b.

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