Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: George Huczek <ghuczek@sk.sympatico.ca> > Subject: [Leica] Re: All hail Tri-X - Dave Fisher > > I'd like to know how "Weave, 1999" was done, whether > the image manipulation took place in the darkroom or on the computer. The computer. A number of years ago I did a whole series of solarized prints in the darkroom that turned out pretty good and were used in some promotional music material. But I don't do it very often because the results I envision are too time consuming. For the particular shoot you're talking about, I was given a call by an alterno-newsweekly editor on a Sunday morning and told I had less than an hour to shoot an arranged session with an industrial-techno band (I was completely unfamiliar with their music). He said he'd like me to do, y'know, "one of those crazy-ass industrial psychedelic things I did on that old promo series. For $40. Oh yeah, I need them by this evening." For that, it was a quick computer manipulation. Took me less than a minute. I could get the same effect in the darkroom, 'though it would never look exactly like the image on my site. The variables are just too difficult to control. If the image ever sees a reason to get exhibited, then I'd go the darkroom route. - ------------------------------------------------ DGF PHOTOGRAPHY http://home.golden.net/~tekapo