On 8 Dec 2004 at 12:24, Mark Erickson wrote: > Anyway, I hope this provides a different perspective and maybe some food for > thought. If anyone is interested, I'll try to make a couple of my "digital > lith" images available on the web tonight.
Very interesting, reminds me a little of the guy who was making exhibition quality toned platinum/palladium prints by contact printing specially crafted digital files out of a Linotronic images setter. http://www.bostick-sullivan.com/Technical_papers/digital%20info/dave_fokos/fokos.pdf > P.S. Regarding Rob's excellent image, I like it very much as it is. The > smooth tones and crispness give it more of a grainless "large-format" feel to > me. Adding grain would give it a different look that may or may not work--I'd > have to see it, I guess. Ah thanks, it's a strange thing this grain issue, it's certainly a treatment but I don't feel that it's a tool in the same sense as destauration or saturating an image is. Grain or lack thereof is generally a consequence of the process whereas printing a colour image to greyscale can completely alter the focus and meaning of the image. For instance the colour version of my image (which you commented upon) is dominiated by a red hat and competeing skin tones in the mid and foreground. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
