From: Katharine Thayer (kthayer@pacifier.com)
Date: 02/27/01-09:42:35 AM Z
Judy Seigel wrote:
so I'm wondering if commercial parameters and alt parameters
> work differently ???
>
I've never understood why folks would assume they would work the same.
At any rate, notwithstanding all this discussion about the problems
using stochastic negatives to burn printing plates, many of us have used
stochastic negatives quite successfully for alt processes for some time.
At my most recent one-woman show, (October-November 2000) I showed (and
sold) a series of large gum prints (18x28) of a flock of starlings in
flight. In order to capture what I wanted to express with this work, it
was necessary for very small, faint, faraway birds to print just as well
as closer bigger darker ones, in order to show the pattern and movement
of the flock. The negatives and the emulsion in combination printed the
tiniest little birds, some of them no larger than the dot you'd make
with the tip of a sharp pencil, very beautifully, and the gradations in
the clouds also printed faithfully. And no, I don't use a vacuum frame.
My first thought on reading over this thread is that sometimes people
make things more difficult for themselves than is absolutely necessary.
Katharine Thayer
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