[alt-photo] Re: Gum over cyanotype question

[Loris Medici]

Well, sharpness is definitely not everything. (My #1 / favourite gum
print was made with paper negs, for instance...) And I like your toy
camera / pinhole images / prints alot!!! :)

Regards,
Loris.


28 Şubat 2012 00:45 tarihinde Diana Bloomfield
<dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net> yazdı:
> Yes, I understand; thanks, Loris.  I guess I'm not all that into sharpness and clarity, for the most part.  But for sharpness, I prefer pt/pd anyway-- or, you know-- cranking out one of those really sharp digital prints. :)  I use too many plastic lens (or no lens) cameras, so I suspect I've gotten too used to non tack-sharp prints.  I rather like the sort of ambiguity that softness can sometimes provide (sorta like life). ;)
>
> Diana
> On Feb 27, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Loris Medici wrote:
>
>> Cyanotype is extremely sharp, in the beginning I was working with
>> imagesetter negatives (3600dpi / 225 lpi - not the best possible, but
>> pretty high res.) and the emulsion was able to resolve each individual
>> dots!!! So much that I started to expose emulsion up (with a slight
>> sharpness penalty) in order to inhibit the strange tonal shifts /
>> blotchiness I was getting between the parts of the image where the
>> dots were clearly resolved and not... Gum can be pretty sharp too, but
>> not to the extent of cyanotype et. al. because it a much thicker and
>> movable/mallable (I'm not sure it's the correct description but I
>> couldn't find a better one...) emulsion.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Loris.
>>
>
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