Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard wrote: > I suppose Photoshop is the way to do it nowadays, but humor me: for > images such as this: > <http://www.photoeye.com/Gallery/forms/index.cfm?image=1&id=96098&imagePosition=1&Door=1&Portfolio=Portfolio1&Gallery=1> > > where there are calligraphy on the prints, I presume one way to do it > is to photograph some calligraphy and then put both negatives together > in the enlarger. How does it work though? Everything is inverse in B&W > neg so how can you photograph the calligraphy so that the background > is "transparent?" > > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, > please use richard at imagecraft.com) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > The answer, Richard, is in the "statement", on his website. "* Process Statement * Don Hong-Oai studied with the famous 104-year-old master, Long Chin-San in Taiwan. Here he learned to work in a Chinese "pictorial" style, using several negatives to compose a picture and perfecting his landscape work. " How, exactly, he does it, we still don't know! Cheers! -- David Young, Logan Lake, BC CANADA. Personal Web-site at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt Leica Reflex Forum web-page: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm