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]]> Cheap Vpxl Tablets - Pharmacy you can trust! http://horsesthink.com/?p=634&cpage=1#comment-4593 Prints « juud2wordpress - photography Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:26:55 +0000 http://horsesthink.com/?p=634#comment-4593 [...] A very interesting article : On Photography & Printmaking [...] [...] A very interesting article : On Photography & Printmaking [...]

]]> Cheap Vpxl Tablets - Pharmacy you can trust! http://horsesthink.com/?p=634&cpage=1#comment-3979 Dalton Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:33:09 +0000 http://horsesthink.com/?p=634#comment-3979 I think a lot of photographers are fairly oblivious to the issues you mention and will remain happy with the quality of their work unless the deficiencies are pointed out. Just as with traditional darkroom equipment, scanners, inkjet printers and other digital tools have a steep learning curve. It's incredibly easy to use them badly, and a lot of people do. I have been focusing on digital printmaking for more than two years now, and I am only now starting to feel confident about the quality of my work. I've been looking at a lot of other photographers' work, both digital and traditional prints, to give myself a benchmark to work toward. Interestingly enough, it is only now that I have gotten very proficient with inkjet that I am preparing to jump into the world of platinum/palladium printing (using digital inter-negatives). So digital technology has definitely enabled me to take my work to the next level and now sits firmly side-by-side with traditional darkroom processes as valid expressions of photographic art. I think a lot of photographers are fairly oblivious to the issues you mention and will remain happy with the quality of their work unless the deficiencies are pointed out. Just as with traditional darkroom equipment, scanners, inkjet printers and other digital tools have a steep learning curve. It’s incredibly easy to use them badly, and a lot of people do. I have been focusing on digital printmaking for more than two years now, and I am only now starting to feel confident about the quality of my work. I’ve been looking at a lot of other photographers’ work, both digital and traditional prints, to give myself a benchmark to work toward.

Interestingly enough, it is only now that I have gotten very proficient with inkjet that I am preparing to jump into the world of platinum/palladium printing (using digital inter-negatives). So digital technology has definitely enabled me to take my work to the next level and now sits firmly side-by-side with traditional darkroom processes as valid expressions of photographic art.

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]]> Cheap Vpxl Tablets - Pharmacy you can trust! http://horsesthink.com/?p=634&cpage=1#comment-3829 tomé Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:36:08 +0000 http://horsesthink.com/?p=634#comment-3829 "The only conclusion I can make regarding all this is that photographers are getting lazy" Getting? Photographers always were lazy. Digital is an INVENTION OF LAZINESS... “The only conclusion I can make regarding all this is that photographers are getting lazy”

Getting? Photographers always were lazy. Digital is an INVENTION OF LAZINESS…

]]> Cheap Vpxl Tablets - Pharmacy you can trust! http://horsesthink.com/?p=634&cpage=1#comment-3817 Alexi Hobbs Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:01:23 +0000 http://horsesthink.com/?p=634#comment-3817 Very interesting article. Perhaps it is just a question of people catching up with the technology ? It seems to me that both labs and photographers have a whole new world to learn about, one that keeps accelerating forward. Or maybe it is a question of cost. The fact that cheaper alternatives exist might be causing many photographers to forego drum scanning, for example, and try to get away with flatbed scans. Just a couple of thoughts ! I totally agree with this: "what makes a photograph a photograph has nothing to do with the chemical nature of the printing process. But it does bother me when a photograph can’t be differentiated from say, an illustration printed on similar paper." I work as a graphic designer and we print most of this kind of work on inkjet printers (as a parallel, offset printing is also slowly being replaced !). When I started getting my own photographs printed with the same process as the graphic work I did, I suddenly felt like something had been taken away from the whole photographic process. Very interesting article.

Perhaps it is just a question of people catching up with the technology ?
It seems to me that both labs and photographers have a whole new world to learn about, one that keeps accelerating forward.

Or maybe it is a question of cost. The fact that cheaper alternatives exist
might be causing many photographers to forego drum scanning, for example, and try to get away with flatbed scans.

Just a couple of thoughts !

I totally agree with this:
“what makes a photograph a photograph has nothing to do with the chemical nature of the printing process. But it does bother me when a photograph can’t be differentiated from say, an illustration printed on similar paper.”

I work as a graphic designer and we print most of this kind of work on inkjet printers (as a parallel, offset printing is also slowly being replaced !). When I started getting my own photographs printed with the same process as the graphic work I did, I suddenly felt like something had been taken away from the whole photographic process.

]]> Cheap Vpxl Tablets - Pharmacy you can trust! http://horsesthink.com/?p=634&cpage=1#comment-3816 Jane Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:40:50 +0000 http://horsesthink.com/?p=634#comment-3816 I totally agree with much of what you said. I believe craft is an integral part into making a successful artist and without it.. you pay someone else to create it or it falls short in execution. Having worked in a digital printing lab (all large format inkjets), I know quality work can be printed. Inkjets can look like C-prints. It all just takes knowledge of color profiling, paper, etc etc. Yeah.. and I have been disappointed by web viewing in comparison to prints before.. happens both ways. =/ I totally agree with much of what you said. I believe craft is an integral part into making a successful artist and without it.. you pay someone else to create it or it falls short in execution.

Having worked in a digital printing lab (all large format inkjets), I know quality work can be printed. Inkjets can look like C-prints. It all just takes knowledge of color profiling, paper, etc etc.

Yeah.. and I have been disappointed by web viewing in comparison to prints before.. happens both ways. =/

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