From: Jeff Buck (jeffbuck@swcp.com)
Date: 09/10/02-12:21:56 PM Z
No, not at all. I've seen Stuart's recent pure gums. Very smooth and
detailed. -jeff buckels
At 01:51 PM 9/10/2002 -0400, Sandy King wrote:
>Kerik wrote:
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>>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.
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>>Grainy and lacking in detail is Old School! : )
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>>Kerik
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>>>>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"?
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>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.
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>Sandy
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