Don't get me wrong Terri. We still drum scan transparencies and make
beautiful reproductions from them. I used to shoot lots of 4x5 and 8x10
transparency film here for this purpose and I was a master at it. We
color corrected and flashed the film and then pulled the E6 process to
control contrast buildup due to cross polarization to make it optimal
for scanning. All that used to happen as a matter of course until we
proved to ourselves that a direct scan using a Betterlight scan back
produced superior results.
That was eight years ago and we never looked back. We still get
transparencies in to work from with great results, but it's just not as
accurate as the direct scan which is actually more work and takes us
longer to do. With legacy work, we use the best approach from whatever
is available, but anything new is done using the Betterlight. So for
your hand coloured photos, there'd be no point in shooting
transparencies. Whenever a transparency is needed these days, we make it
from the scan and it looks better than an original transparency.
----- Original Message -----
From: "terri pakula" <t.tweetytiel@verizon.net>
To: <artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 10:50 AM
Subject: [artshow_photo] Re: can I call my prints giclee?
John..I agree here that all inkjets are not giclees. There is a
difference. Bottom line whether a transparency is made or drum scanned
or whatever....however....it is more then just putting a flash card,
downloading t and printing on photographic paper...
The artist I referred to earlier has sold many beautifully done
giclees prints which were made from his watercolours which are one of
a kind....They were photographed first then 4 X 5 transparencies were
made...That is all I know...
I found a series of handcoloured photographs I did 30 years ago. They
are one of a kind. I no longer have the negatives either. If I ever
were to sell them I would have giclees done......
Terri
"The downside of simply saying inkjet is that there have been many bad
ones around, usually what the buyers are used to making themselves and
they certainly have no respect for what comes out of their own printers
or what they get at Stinkos (that's Staples and Kinkos all wrapped up).
A giclée simply means an inkjet that meets certain criteria or minimum
standards for fine art. I have no problem with the term if that's what
people call them to differentiate them from simple inkjets.
All giclées are inkjets but all inkets are not giclées. I couldn't care
less about the colloquial meaning of the word, squirt, ejaculate or
whatever, but in this industry it does mean that it meets a higher
standard than just inkjet. Pigment on whatever doesn't tell us much
either. Not all pigments are equal either. Some have dyes in them and
some dyes are better and longer lasting than some pigments. Possibly a
term like "giclée pigment on canvas or whatever" would tell us the most
becuase it doesn't only describe the content but also the process and
its intent.
"A Parrot doesn't scream to make noise,
but because he has something to say.
Do we listen?"
t.tweetytiel@verizon.net
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