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Gear Whore #1
So it seems that the use of roll paper is a pretty big advantage because I can create custom sizes of paper. I kinda figured out that I can make 13x19.5's and still maintain 2 inch borders with a 17x23.5 paper size. The broad borders really lay down a strong foundation to establish a print as a spacial entity. Although 13x19.5 is not really that big a print, the borders make the print seem mucho bigger than it is.
Did a lot of gloss overcoating last night. I think I will burn through a roll of 17 inch wide paper.
One of my best images happened by mistake. I learned that the paper is glued to the roll at the very end, so the result was a tall skinny print where a black line of repeated overprinting happened due to the paper not advancing. It just so happened the shot is a very interesting composition that otherwise I might not have made.
I keep on going back and forth with the 20x30 of Sal ("Landscape-Face"). I do like the print, but I still like the smaller print more. Anyways the 20x30 of the Pit-Bull I call "Scar-Face" really works well at 20x30, even though it was shot with shallow DOF with retro glass (35/1.8 Nikkor in LTM). This print I purposely selected because it displays a wonderful use of my splitone inkset, and I also intend on making a print using Canson Platine Fibre Rag for a glossy look and perhaps more glow to the print. The glow is somewhat amplified on big prints BTW.
Anyways the exhibition prints make my earlier work prints look rather primitive. I had thought that this would kinda be like a insider pop-up show, but at my present rate it will no longer be like a gallery show, but more like a retrospective because the prints are piling up. Somehow I have hit my stride.
Chris tells me there are 15 who have firmed up, and this Friday is the cut-off (April 1st). Tomorrow I will be off because I have a paying gig that is kinda big coming up, and tomorrow I get the chance to scope out a roof near Union Square for a rather large home furnishings store that is luxury/high-end. If you need to firm up I would do it now rather than be closed out.
I'm cool with the smaller group though because those that attend will definitely get their money's worth.
Know that the 3880 has a very high probability of becoming a color printer. Lately I think I made the jump to liking color. On Maggie's blog she now has 30K followers after hitting 20K just in January. A shot I took Saturday that Maggie posted Monday had 1.9K likes already, and it was just posted yesterday. I expect 50K folowers on Maggie's blog sometime this summer.
Through Maggie I was sought out as the photographer for the Union Square gig. Generally these paying gigs that Maggie gets the client usually uses their own photographer, but this time they requested me. Funny thing is that yesterday we learned that a friend and fellow blogger from Austrailia is also part of the same campaign.
Cal
Did a lot of gloss overcoating last night. I think I will burn through a roll of 17 inch wide paper.
One of my best images happened by mistake. I learned that the paper is glued to the roll at the very end, so the result was a tall skinny print where a black line of repeated overprinting happened due to the paper not advancing. It just so happened the shot is a very interesting composition that otherwise I might not have made.
I keep on going back and forth with the 20x30 of Sal ("Landscape-Face"). I do like the print, but I still like the smaller print more. Anyways the 20x30 of the Pit-Bull I call "Scar-Face" really works well at 20x30, even though it was shot with shallow DOF with retro glass (35/1.8 Nikkor in LTM). This print I purposely selected because it displays a wonderful use of my splitone inkset, and I also intend on making a print using Canson Platine Fibre Rag for a glossy look and perhaps more glow to the print. The glow is somewhat amplified on big prints BTW.
Anyways the exhibition prints make my earlier work prints look rather primitive. I had thought that this would kinda be like a insider pop-up show, but at my present rate it will no longer be like a gallery show, but more like a retrospective because the prints are piling up. Somehow I have hit my stride.
Chris tells me there are 15 who have firmed up, and this Friday is the cut-off (April 1st). Tomorrow I will be off because I have a paying gig that is kinda big coming up, and tomorrow I get the chance to scope out a roof near Union Square for a rather large home furnishings store that is luxury/high-end. If you need to firm up I would do it now rather than be closed out.
I'm cool with the smaller group though because those that attend will definitely get their money's worth.
Know that the 3880 has a very high probability of becoming a color printer. Lately I think I made the jump to liking color. On Maggie's blog she now has 30K followers after hitting 20K just in January. A shot I took Saturday that Maggie posted Monday had 1.9K likes already, and it was just posted yesterday. I expect 50K folowers on Maggie's blog sometime this summer.
Through Maggie I was sought out as the photographer for the Union Square gig. Generally these paying gigs that Maggie gets the client usually uses their own photographer, but this time they requested me. Funny thing is that yesterday we learned that a friend and fellow blogger from Austrailia is also part of the same campaign.
Cal
