[alt-photo] Re: Babbling, etc

[Loris Medici]

I think it's not the process(es) that makes us get into the gallery. 
OTOH,  if you have ever been rejected by gallery because you work with 
any of the alt. processes - or, let's say because you don't work with 
any "mainstream"(!) method - that's bad news indeed... I think to 
reserve a photography gallery exclusively to alt. processes is a kind of 
bad decision perhaps - in terms of business, that is. (Not that I 
wouldn't like to have many of them!) OTOH, from a gallery's perspective, 
being able to present something "different" would be nice, definitely. 
Therefore, we don't need alt-friendly galleries really, we need 
non-alt-opposing galleries...

Regards,
Loris.


15.07.2010 00:22, Christina Anderson yazmış:
> Loris and Diana,
>
> I'm very excited about this because when the market goes in such a direction, it means they recognize there's money to be made there. Now, when do you think galleries will catch on?  So far the alt-friendly galleries are a vast minority. I could probably name them on two hands.
> Chris
>
> Christina Z. Anderson
> christinaZanderson.com
>
> On Jul 14, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Loris Medici wrote:
>
>> Diana, I don't think it's something very different (and/or considerably more elaborate) than we already do right now - using slightly different methods... Just speculating here: My best (and most optimistic) guess would be that it's a software module designed for the specific purpose of making enlarged negatives for contact printing, integrated in their RIP. (= $$$) As I said before, for the moment, to us, the software itself isn't much important. (And probably will stay so - See the "$$$" part...) What's more important is the fact that we finally have their focus (a collaboration with Magnum isn't something to take lightly BTW), and that makes me hope that maybe they'll finally start to consider our specific needs when designing future products (and/or software updates)... And it's good that HP did that first, that will probably stimulate Epson to catch up(!) ;)
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>> Regards,
>> Loris.
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>> 14.07.2010 22:27, Diana Bloomfield yazmış:
>>> ... But back to the original original post, can someone explain about the HP software and how that would work (in comparison to making one's own curves for digital negatives/processes that one might do already)? ...