Announcement
The Van-Del, Middlepoint, Ohio, 2003Exhibit: The American Drive-in Movie Theater
Photographs by Carl Weese
Washington Art Association (Washington, Connecticut)
Feb. 3-25, 2007
Feb. 3-25, 2007
Opening Reception, Saturday, Feb. 3, 3-5 PM
The show will be about twenty pictures from my Drive-ins project. The prints will be quite large, 13x32-inch or 13x16.5-inch image area.
for directions or other info contact the Washington Art Association
8 comments:
Congratulations Carl. I would love to see the exhibit. Are these platinum prints.
Ernie, no, because of the venue I wanted to do the Drive-in pictures larger than contact size, so I'm doing a hybrid. The negatives are all large format, 8x10 and 7x17 inch, but I've scannned them and I'm making the prints with an Epson 4800.
What's this? Black and white? Who would have guessed. Certainly not the casual reader of this blog. Looks great. Why not post some of them here?
George, the blog concentrates on my current experiments with all-digital color work. But my Drive-ins series is all done in monochrome, film, with 8x10 and 7x17 inch cameras. Prints are either direct contacts in platinum/palladium, or enlarged digital versions scanned from the negatives and printed in pigment inks on cotton paper. I think I will post a few more of them here as the date of the show approaches.
The Van-Del print looks to be beautiful. What ink and paper did you use?
George,
Well, of course no ink or paper for what you are seeing. That's a reduction of my scan to a size appropriate for this medium.
For the show, the prints of all my 810 originals will be 13x16.5 and the 717 originals will be 13x32. I'm using an Epson 4800 which can do 17" roll paper and my print dimensions are running from a 2 inch border. The 4800 uses the Ultrachrome K3 inskset which does wonderful monochrome. The paper is Epson Ultra Smooth Fine Art, which is terrific and quite affordable, if you can use the roll material which is only available at 17" and up.
Funny, I knew when I left that comment that I should have said: "That image looks like it might make a beautiful print. What ink and paper are you planning to use?" Anyway, I guess I would differ with you on the K3 inks, at least without a good RIP, but I like the UltraSmooth, and use it myself. On a slightly different topic, are you having fun shooting in color? Perhaps you've always worked in color, but I'm guessing from the Van-Del shot that it's not your native mode.
George,
The big improvement I see with K3 is the lack of metamerism: the monochrome color stays constant in different viewing conditions, which it didn't with the previous UltraChrome ink. I'm getting good results using either color management out of PSCS2 or using the "advanced b&w driver" in the Epson software.
As for color, I've always primarily made my living shooting color for photo-illustration assignments, but did little personal color work because I never really liked traditional color print materials. Digital printing has made color work attractive to me, so I'm visiting ideas that have been in the back of my mind for decades but didn't shoot because I always decided "why bother? I'm not going to like the RA (or Ciba) print anyhow..."
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