[alt-photo] Re: another new gum...

[Marek Matusz]

Paul,

This picture does not work for me on a few levels. First the narrative: a sunny and beautiful blue sky and a dark blue cast of the foregrand reminescent of a passing thunderstorm. The story just braks down and does not engage.

>From the gum standpoint I do not think you went far enough with your pictorialism. This picture just begs for further manupulation. If you were to make the middle band a different hue by brushing wet cyan layer off it would provide nice visual separation between the sky and the dark foreground.

I have to say that this picture is havily biased towards cyan and to me it is problematic. Perhaps two separate cyan layers would be better: one for sky, which is rendered so nicely and one for the hills.

Gum offers endless possibilities and this picture has so much potential.

Thanks for opening yourself to feedback.

It just makes my day looking at somebody elses gums.

Marek
 
> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:49:02 -0500
> From: keith.gerling at gmail.com
> To: alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org
> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: another new gum...
> 
> Diana,
> 
> I find the sky in this work to be incredibly rich and complete. Maybe its
> a difference in monitors or something, but I really cannot visualize this
> picture any "richer" w/o being cloying.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Diana Bloomfield <
> dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> > Do you really think so, Keith? It seems to me I've seen some wonderful gum
> > prints that are rich and full of color that don't actually cross that fine
> > line into muddiness. I also see this image (subject matter) open to various
> > "techniques" and options. Obviously, a different mood would be evoked if
> > printed differently, but I can see this image printed both richer and
> > darker-- even, and especially, in the bottom third (without evolving into
> > muddiness) and becoming a print that's is as interesting and seemingly
> > "perfect" as this one.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jun 13, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Keith Gerling wrote:
> >
> > Nice Paul. The technique should fit the subject, which this does. I like
> >> the way you handled the bottom third of this composition. A richer
> >> handling
> >> would have turned to mud.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Diana Bloomfield <
> >> dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey Paul,
> >>>
> >>> Well, this is nice, too-- but I like the others you did so much better.
> >>> Maybe I just like the images themselves better than this one, but I also
> >>> thought the printing was just superior and richer in every way. I think
> >>> this is the style (that a lot of people seem to love, I guess) that
> >>> always
> >>> makes me think of Polaroid emulsion lifts. That's what this more
> >>> "painterly" style looks like to me. For what it's worth, my vote is for
> >>> the
> >>> other way. :)
> >>>
> >>> Diana
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Jun 12, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Paul Viapiano wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Here's another new gum in a more painterly style than my last two
> >>>
> >>>> offerings...
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/viapiano/4691939849/
> >>>>
> >>>>
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