RE: My first platinum-palladium over gold leaf prints
Try Mozilla Firefox. Don Bryant -----Original Message----- From: Rajul [mailto:eyeear@telus.net] Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:40 AM To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: Re: My first platinum-palladium over gold leaf prints Dan, All I could see of your .com/gold image was a textured rich gray surface with a lighter center. This was on Safari. I dare not use Explorer because it creates freezing problems. Any suggestions? Thanks. Rajul On 9-Feb-08, at 6:48 PM, Dan Burkholder wrote: > > > This evening I finally photographed the first group of > platinum/palladium over gold leaf prints. I've printed more than the > nine on this site but these are the most successful to date. After > doing a lot of inkjet printing over the past couple years, it felt > very refreshing to be involved with handmade processes once again. In > some way, this work is almost a rebellion to the direction most > photography is taking. The prints are small (4"x6" up to 5.5"x8.5"), > unlike the trend to giantism that the medium is experiencing. I also > wanted to make prints with a look and feel unlike anything we can > produce with an inkjet printer. > > I started testing different vellums and sizes in December and am > starting to get a feel for what works and what doesn't. The harder > issue (for me at least) is learning what type of images work well in > this combination and which don't. It's like all of photography; the > "why's" are always more difficult than the "how's." > > The images themselves are a mix of old and new, taking some years-old > images that are favorites along with new work from our new home in > upstate New York and exploring the print impact with the gold. The > "Flatiron in Spring, New York" image is my first effort at bimetal > gilding. The Flatiron is in palladium leaf and the rest of the print > is in 24K gold. I'm eager to do more of this Au/Pd leafing. I gotta > admit that there's something fun about making prints in which the > final image is comprised of three precious metals, all of which are > completely insensitive to light. ;^) > > I will be out of pocket for a couple of days and won't be able to > reply very promptly to questions or comments. > > Thanks for looking here: > > www.DanBurkholder.com/gold > > Dan > > info@DanBurkholder.com > www.DanBurkholder.com >
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