Re: Recent work: was Re: tri-color gum at last , nr 2

["Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>]

I agree, DJ--the rock formation, schoolgirl, and woman's face are my faves. 
The rocks have more dynamic range so it looks as if you did more layers of 
long to short exposures or what?

You're on the right track!  Boy do you travel a lot.  I love the story about 
the airplane/paper!
Chris
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Christina Z. Anderson
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Valentino" <laura@this.is>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 4:38 AM
Subject: Re: Recent work: was Re: tri-color gum at last , nr 2


> Nice work! I like the woman's face. Is the rock formation several layers, 
> or just one? The schoolgirl is classic...if I tried to take that pic, the 
> girl would probably look at me funny and walk away before I was ready...
>
> Laura
>
> Dirk-Jan Treffers wrote:
> > ok, my very first attempts in gumprinting, these are only the monochrome 
> > ones... the tri-colour ones, I'm just not satisfied enough to share 
> > *blush*
> >
> > DJ
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/94006621@N00/sets/72157605877193619/
> >
> >
> > 2008/9/26 Christina Z. Anderson <zphoto@montana.net 
> > <mailto:zphoto@montana.net>>
> >
> >     I like your brush strokes, Laura...very expressionistic.   Nice
> >     dance images!
> >
> >     It's really fun to push the gum expression in all different ways.
> >     I've been really having fun with this scraping out completely
> >     different areas thing. Thanks for the encouragement!
> >     Chris
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> >
> >     Christina Z. Anderson
> >     http://christinaZanderson.com/
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> >     ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Valentino" <laura@this.is
> >     <mailto:laura@this.is>>
> >     To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca 
> > <mailto:alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>>
> >     Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:28 AM
> >     Subject: Recent work: was Re: tri-color gum at last , nr 2
> >
> >
> >
> >         Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
> >
> >             Don't stop with the gum prints either :)  I love it when
> >             people post URLs to a print they are working on. It makes
> >             the list more active.  I wish more people would be less shy
> >             about showing their work.
> >
> >
> >         Ok, I'll bite :)
> >
> >         Here are 2 prints I did to take a break from another series that
> >         I had started and was getting frustrated with trying to get
> >         predictable results. In these 2 prints, I used some soft focus
> >         images and more or less randomly chose colors to work with just
> >         to see what would happen. Gum is supposed to be painterly, no?
> >
> >         http://lavatop.com/gums/index.html
> >         http://lavatop.com/gums/index2.html
> >
> >         Christina...about your scraped prints. I say scrape away! It
> >         adds another dimension to the look. So what if it's not a
> >         "purist" approach (whatever that is).
> >         Laura