From: Sandy King (sanking@CLEMSON.EDU)
Date: 09/10/02-11:51:34 AM Z
Kerik wrote:
>Anyone who saw Stuart Melvin's gum prints at Platypus this year
>knows that gum prints CAN be the opposite of grainy and with limited
>detail.
>
>Grainy and lacking in detail is Old School! : )
>
>Kerik
>
>>>Let's get back to discussing something really relevant, like "can
>>>the male/female photographer who shoots nudes only as a pretense
>>>for looking at naked women/men really be satisfied with the
>>>grainy look and limited detail of the gum bichromate process"?
Indeed. Stuart Melvin's prints do show a lot of detail. But does not
the appearance of detail come from the first platinum layer? For
example, if you compare three-color gum prints made with cyan,
magenta and yellow gum layers the appearance of sharpness is much
less than when you use a cyanotype for the blue record instead of gum.
Sandy
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