From: Robert W. Schramm (schrammrus@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/29/00-07:41:45 PM Z
Right on Cactus! I agree also. Judy is 100% correct. I do digital
every day on a Mac G4 with Photoshop 5.5 and love it, but it will never be
able to reproduce the subtle hues, tonal range, texture,
gradiation etc. etc. of the alternate process print.
Once while in Paris at the Musee de l'Orangerie, where all those wonderful
french impressionists paintings are located, I attempted
for a while to photograph some of them with my Leica and Ektachrome.
After a few frames I quit because I knew that the photographic process
could not possibly capture the image I saw in front of me.
Bob Schramm
>From: Cactus Cowboy <photo@wir.net>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Digital vs. Gum
>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:34:39 -0600
>
>Gregory Parkinson wrote:
>
>(snip)
>as digital processes improve it is possible to
> > > create the _look_ of anything an alt process can do. I've been
>
>Judy Seigel responded:
>
>(snip)
> > Not QUITE the look -- maybe in repro, but there's a tactile sense to gum
> > printing at least that inkjet lacks.
>
>I completely agree with Judy. I can't imagine any digital process that
>could ever duplicate the essence of a well-made gum print.
>
>I was made painfully aware of gum's unique qualities when I set out to
>shoot
>4x5 copy transparencies of my gum prints. To get halfway decent results, I
>had to polarize/filter both the tungsten lights and my camera lens. The
>transparencies are beautiful, but pale in comparison to seeing and holding
>the actual prints.
>
>Gum especially appeals to me for its unique qualities. Although I've been
>able to make very similar multiple prints of the same image (by making two
>or three prints at each session), this doesn't always work. Some gum
>prints
>are simply unreproducable. There are too many serendipitous variables that
>have led me to create a truly outstanding print, and then caused me untold
>wasted hours, materials, and grief in a futile attempt to repeat the
>results.
>
>Cactus Cowboy
>Powell, Wyoming
>
>
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