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Sorry ... I just missed you very last post, Bob. So to qualify it, hypothetically referring to
my own prefences, I'd be looking for rolls of Kentmere Fineprint or Multigrade FBWT, not
MG IV. In other words, premium stuff. Are you bagging any of that directly? Last I checked, Kentmere availability was off and on, with long lead times. Maybe Canadian
distribution is different. Color rolls from Fuji are no problem to get.
Re: Standard "Print Viewing Distance" Myth.
I'll draw an analogy with music system reproduction.
If a high definition music system offers (dependent on a specific recording):
*Proper tonal balance.
*Proper instrument/human voice timbre.
*High resolution.
*Proper reproduction of the interaction of the musicians with their instruments in the performance space.
*Extremely low levels of irritating distortion.
*Loudness dynamic range.
There can be great involvement from the listener to the reproduced musical experience. Music systems and good recordings that have these qualities significantly reduce the amount of work and energy used by the mind to re-create the musical experience and very significantly lowers the listening fatigue problem. Music systems and recordings with a very high degree of fidelity have the ability to draw the listener deeper into the musical experience.... if the music being reproduced is of interest to the listener.
This can also hold true for images with emotional/visual appeal and high resolution/definition.
The curiosity factor is very much involved for both images and reproduced music. Some individuals may want to be intimately involved with the image or music, while others take this causally. For both images and music, there is a learning curve as both are similar to being fluent in their respective language.
There should be room for both these types of experiences, casual and deep.
Bernice
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“I want people to view my work up close,” says Butcher about his desire to create very large prints. “When you’re in nature you’re scanning from the log to the tree to the bird to the water and your mind puts the images together to create the feeling of the scene. When you view my large prints your mind does the same thing because you cannot see the image all at once. And sharpness is the key to it. Your eyes - your brain - wants things to be clear and sharp. All of that makes the viewer relate to my images in a way that is similar to the peace felt when being out in nature. I want my images to create a positive emotion in people, with the hope that they carry that emotion out into their lives to make the world a better place in which to live.”
Sandy
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Multigrade WT is being delivered monthly , receiving a roll this friday
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Drew Wiley
Sorry ... I just missed you very last post, Bob. So to qualify it, hypothetically referring to
my own prefences, I'd be looking for rolls of Kentmere Fineprint or Multigrade FBWT, not
MG IV. In other words, premium stuff. Are you bagging any of that directly? Last I checked, Kentmere availability was off and on, with long lead times. Maybe Canadian
distribution is different. Color rolls from Fuji are no problem to get.
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Thanks, Bob. I do think distribution might be different there. Unfortunately, none of the
remaining commercial labs in this area seem to be filling that niche. But that's fine. None
were really tailored to "fine art" fussiness anyway; and all those storefront displays etc
have largely gone in-house with wide inkjet printers. Large optical color printing is still
a going concern locally, but on a smaller volume basis than before. I don't do any outside
work, so am in a different category - just work with my own negs and chromes.
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Mine are made of either different thicknesses of gelatin that has burnt plant material suspended in it, or precious metal imbedded in the paper fibers...:)
This is how we should start describing our work to people.
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Bernice Loui
Some individuals may want to be intimately involved with the image or music, while others take this causally.
I think the music reproduction analogy is right on, but it drives me some different conclusions. I used to flirt a bit with audiophilia (sounds dirty, I know) and started noticing the way people in that world conflated loving sound and loving music in ways that other people didn't.
I have friends who are more serious about music than anyone else I know, who really don't care about audio quality. One of them, a contemporary classical composer and multi-instrumentalist, was hanging out at my place listening to music. He enjoyed my stereo, but really didn't care about it much. He said, "as long as I can hear the notes and rhythms, I'm happy."
I don't think it's an either/or proposition, but I do see people getting distracted from the art by the medium in both music and photography.
So far I haven't witnessed literary people getting obsessed with type design and bookbinding ...
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paulr
So far I haven't witnessed literary people getting obsessed with type design and bookbinding ...
Mis-spell their name on the cover...then you'd better duck and cover! But I think one might find many poets are quite picky about such details. And there is a whole industry that revolves around book design who might differ on what you have or have not witnessed. It is (to me) like saying painters, photographers, etc do not very concerned about mat color or type of frame. Of course, it just might be the difference of being 'concerned' and being 'obsessed'.
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Remind me now, should poetry be spoken or read?
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Struan Gray
Remind me now, should poetry be spoken or read?
As you read it, speak it...at least in one's head if not out loud. IMO, it would be the reading of plays that would be the most difficult to properly experience.
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Struan Gray
Remind me now, should poetry be spoken or read?
This is like the film vs. digital question for poets.