Re: Attn Chris + All Creart enthusiasts.A message from Pierre Duncan.

[Richard Knoppow <dickburk@ix.netcom.com>]

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From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>
To: "Alt, List" <alt-photo-process-L@usask.ca>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: Attn Chris + All Creart enthusiasts.A message 
from Pierre Duncan.


> >                     I do like his images, though. Do you?
> > John - Photographist - London - UK
> > > http://www.2000net.com/fujifilm/perera/
> Hmmmm....I don't like to judge others' work online much, 
> but...
>
> I am biased to the gum process and these look a little low
> contrast and multicolor in a somewhat drab way, but then 
> again when you
> photograph gums they also look crummier than in real life 
> because of the way
> the glossy gum diffracts light.
>
> The internet is really sometimes a pain--either images 
> look way better than
> they are in person, or worse.  I know Carl Weese, for 
> instance, "mimics" his
> ziatypes for online presentation because there is no way 
> to get an adequate
> delicacy of detail online.
>
> The fact that Perera is showing places must mean they look 
> intriguing in
> person. And they are large, it looks like...
>
> The process is supposedly less toxic but I don't know what 
> the hardener is
> to make it so.
> Chris
   I also wonder what we are seeing.  I note that all the 
samples on the web site have rather dense magenta-ish 
borders. I saved the large image of the woman with a bucket 
and adjusted it in Photoshop. After adjusting it looks quite 
good. The histograms look peculiar. It sure would be 
interesting to know what the originals look like.
   BTW, you might get better results in photographing work 
with surface reflection by using polarized light and a 
polarizing filter on the camera. This is a standard 
technique in copying. Both light source and camera 
polarizers are adjusted to minimize the surface reflections.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@ix.netcom.com