[alt-photo] Re: floriade/tricolor gum-breaking the rules

[Tomas Sobota]

Very nice images, Henk, congratulations!

(You put the link to image disp7 twice. But changing 7 to 8 in the browser
address line brings the last)

Tom


On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:01 PM, henk thijs <henk.thijs at hetnet.nl> wrote:

> Dear List,
> Tomorrow the dutch queen Beatrix will open a major event in the
> netherlands: every 10 years a world horticulture expo is held in another
> city in the Netherlands, this time Venlo.
>
> http://www.floriade.com/
>
> The Limburgs Museum in this town organized in this respect a
> photo-exhibition; they invited 15 photographers to participate with three
> images.
> I was one of them.
> I made three tri-color prints, and after that i received a note that they
> expect a digital image in order to produce a 90x70 cm print on dibond.
>
> http://www.thijs-foto.com/NEWWORK2/disp6.html
> http://www.thijs-foto.com/NEWWORK2/disp7.html
> http://www.thijs-foto.com/NEWWORK2/disp7.html
>
> So i scanned my images and after that i started a process what i would
> call : breaking the rules.
> With Photoshop i used the original image with the scanned tricolor
> gumprint in order to work out color, details  etc.
> Thinking of the discussions of the last weeks about 'alternative' , this
> is obviously 'not done' in alt.
> After the experience of doing what i did, i think we should discuss first
> some principal matters.
> When starting alt, in the real beginning of 'the list', i think for all
> participants it was clear that the most important thing was the image as
> such, and that the means of alt could give some extra to the final result.
> In that respect  i like to use several ways of trying to make the final
> result better, also the use of digital, not only for making the negative.
> Spending such amount of hours, money, failures etc. to produce  a bromoil
> or a gum print for an image 'from the shelf', not for me. Only the pictures
> i still  like after a certain time, i will choose to make some alt-process.
> In the discussions lately about 'alternative' i got the impression that
> alt-process as such was the main goal.
> cheers,
> Henk
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