I just noticed, buried in my thread about Lake Tahoe and Fly Geyser, this:
After my wife and I visited his gallery in Springdale, she commented that he must be "cheating" since there is no way to see those colors in the real world. I replied that I could see them produced with Velvia and fortuitous light conditions. But now, having been to some of the locations he shot in Zion, I'm not so sure anymore. So do you think this could indeed be achieved on film ? In the chemical darkroom ?
Other questions raised by the quote: If you scan your film and output a digital transparency to be printed in the chemical darkroom, is your print "digital" or "traditional" ? Did you also found out that prints produced by the chemical darkroom command higher prices ?
I also don't understand why he would use inkjet, though. I know that his prints are sold mostly framed, but yet it is possible to tell a inkjet from an ilfochrome under those conditions, or if the customer unmounted the print for some reasons. Without going into the ethics of it, from a business point of view this sounds pretty risky.
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