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[Tri Tran]

Title : Eucalyptus Trees Series
Format : 8x10in
Process: Carbon transfer with Sumi ink pigment.
Support Media : Warm Pearl luster paper.
Lens: SF at F11/

[Tri Tran]

Title : Eucalyptus Trees Series
Format : 8x10in
Process: Carbon transfer with Sumi ink pigment.
Support Media : Warm Pearl luster paper.
Lens: SF at F8

[ndg]

Title : Eucalyptus Trees Series
Format : 8x10in
Process: Carbon transfer with Sumi ink pigment.
Support Media : Warm Pearl luster paper.
Lens: SF at F8

I like the contrast. This image is also much sharper than the first one you posted from the series.

[Joe Smigiel]

My first attempt at polymer photogravure. This is an image reproduced at 4x5 on Rives BFK paper. The original was an 8x10 contact print that was scanned, curved in Photoshop, then output to Pictorico OHP. The OHP was printed onto a screened photopolymer plate which was processed and later inked and printed using a press.

I made this first print during a workshop in Kalamazoo, Michigan taught by Clay Harmon. Great workshop and instructor and a good group of fellow participants made for a very enjoyable weekend.

The original contact print is posted in the May 2014 Portrait thread.

[Ramiro Elena]

Wow! This is really great. I went to the Portraits thread thinking the original would be perhaps even better but I like this version. Nice project too.

[ndg]

My first attempt at polymer photogravure. This is an image reproduced at 4x5 on Rives BFK paper. The original was an 8x10 contact print that was scanned, curved in Photoshop, then output to Pictorico OHP. The OHP was printed onto a screened photopolymer plate which was processed and later inked and printed using a press.

I made this first print during a workshop in Kalamazoo, Michigan taught by Clay Harmon. Great workshop and instructor and a good group of fellow participants made for a very enjoyable weekend.

The original contact print is posted in the May 2014 Portrait thread.

Joe, that is a very impressive first image. Miles better than my first. Keep it up! BTW, what ink did you use?

[ScottPhotoCo]

Yesterday, at the Huntington Library, I got to review up close almost 70 original large form photogravures made from plates by Edward Curtis. Some of the most beautiful images I have ever seen.

[ndg]

I think a distinction needs to be made between copper plate photogravure and photopolymer work. Even though both produce great prints, the latter is not photogravure. There is no use of a gelatin resist and no etching. In fairness to all those who practiced and are still practicing the really difficult art of copper plate photogravure, the term "photopolymer intaglio" has been suggested for prints done with photopolymer plates and personally, that is the term I use to describe my photopolymer plates. I don't think it takes away from the photopolymer technique but it gives due credit and respect to those photogravurist now and before.

[hendrik faure]

I think a distinction needs to be made between copper plate photogravure and photopolymer work. Even though both produce great prints, the latter is not photogravure. There is no use of a gelatin resist and no etching. In fairness to all those who practiced and are still practicing the really difficult art of copper plate photogravure, the term "photopolymer intaglio" has been suggested for prints done with photopolymer plates and personally, that is the term I use to describe my photopolymer plates. I don't think it takes away from the photopolymer technique but it gives due credit and respect to those photogravurist now and before.

thanks for this note. But lastly result (printed on paper) counts
hendrik


easter bunny

copperplate photogravüre from 8x10 fortepan 400 neg, somerset antique paper, gamblin black bone ink

[ndg]

Hendrik, another great print. What are you using for aquatint? Looks like asphaltum.