You seem to be talking about Spain, while I talk about the world in
general. Even then, a friend from Segovia was telling me last week that
photoceramics on tombstones are nowhere as common today as they were 50 or
75 years ago.
Anyone else from Spain who can confirm or deny this? Other countries?
>(thanks God) is a healthy branch of phofotgrapy. Actually, three or four
>companies are delivering service for this demand. Apart from them, there
>are
There used to be 14 in France. Now they are down to one and most of their
production is *not* for tombstone pictures.
>several good photoceramists (let say like me) that have plenty of
>tombstone work during the year. Even I prefer to offer cuatrichromies to
>my clients, since
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"quadrichromies" in French and "4-color" in English
> I use the digital separations and Photoshop, instead of the monochromes
>illumitated (coloured). I never hear about photoceramics stolen in the
>cemetieries here in Spain, but never knows... The cuatrichromies in
>photoceramicas opens a new and quite wide field of development for this
>beautifull application of photography. I use the carbon process (altered)
>to transport the four images in register, opperation that is now easier by
>using the photomecanic (dots) sepatations filmed from photoshop. (I
>applogize for my
I think you are talking about registration marks here
You transfer and bake one color at a time or all four at once?
>english). I have no problem using the sun UV with the tissues here in
>Madrid o Andalucia (where I use to work half of the year). Some times I
>need to expos only for 8-12 minutes. The bases used currently in
>photoceramics (enamels) are
I'm amazed to hear that anyone can attempt to use a 4-color carbon process
using the sun as a UV source. When I was making them commercially on paper,
even 5% exposure variation on the darn cyan made a lot of difference. I'll
have to see some of your work to be convinced that this really works.
Luis Nadeau
nadeaul@nbnet.nb.ca
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada