Kirk Gittings images at Freestyle and thoughts on Freesetyle policy

**Andre Noble** · 16-Aug-2006, 19:58

When shopping for selenium toner at Freestyle, I honestly was a little suprised to learn that Kirk printed his Freestyle gallery prints using ink jet pigments.

Heresy!

**tim atherton** · 16-Aug-2006, 20:22

Originally Posted by Andre_941

When shopping for selenium toner at Freestyle, I honestly was a little suprised to learn that Kirk printed his Freestyle gallery prints using ink jet pigments.

Heresy!

Nah - just following Ansel:

"I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them."

Forward - The Negative
Ansel Adams,
Carmel, California
March 1981

**Kirk Gittings** · 16-Aug-2006, 20:56

Andre,

I use what ever works best for the image and regularly shift back and forth between silver and archival ink. My last big show was 2/3 ink. The upcoming show at the Creative Center will be almost all silver.

JW,

I am speechless with this train of thought. I am without a clever comeback.

**Donald Brewster** · 17-Aug-2006, 07:36

So you ARE an ingenue!

**Kirk Gittings** · 17-Aug-2006, 08:09

You know I should of brought an 8x10, that 4x5 looks kind of puny next to my large format body.

**Ralph Barker** · 17-Aug-2006, 09:13

Originally Posted by Kirk Gittings

You know I should of brought an 8x10, that 4x5 looks kind of puny next to my large format body.

Wait a few years, Kirk. There is a tendency for older LF bodies to turn into ULF panoramics.

**Andre Noble** · 18-Aug-2006, 08:36

Good reply Kirk, besides who am I to be a critic having probably snapped only about 1/300th the number of LF exposures you have in your life. Actually I'm not a critic. It's just that I think darkroom printing is a vital part of the art of photography.

I've tried ink jet printing, but since have tossed most of those prints in the trash.

But for me, there's no 'there' there about them, if you know what I mean.

**Kirk Gittings** · 18-Aug-2006, 09:55

It's just that I think darkroom printing is a vital part of the art of photography.

see also: http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ad.php?t=19083

Andre,

I have tossed more than a few too, but probably not as much as test silver prints trying to make a print really sing. Silver and ink sing differently, but each can make great music. For me ink is a problem solver, there are images that for various reasons, I simply could not make work in silver and needed the extraordinary control I get with a file.