Re: fine art reproduction questions
Re: fine art reproduction questions
- Subject: Re: fine art reproduction questions
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 00:16:24 +0200
- Thread-topic: fine art reproduction questions
on 3/05/10 0:00, Ben Goren wrote :
> This is intriguing, as it's something I've struggled with even on watercolors.
> Watercolor paper has a texture that the camera captures -- at least, with my
> lighting setup, it captures it. One can then, obviously, choose to preserve or
> clip that texture. But the printer paper has its own texture, almost always
> different from the original. I generally do the obvious fiddling of white
> points so that the texture essentially vanishes, and that has produced the
> best results so far.
>
> Were the HP prints being made on canvas? If so, how did the original texture
> captured by the camera interact with the texture of the canvas it was printed
> on?
>
> That's ignoring, of course, the fact that so many oils are really
> three-dimensional works, sculptures in paint, really. Nothing short of one of
> those 3-D plastic fabrication printers could do one justice, and I have no
> idea how one would apply ink on top of such a surface. I'm sure that's when
> I'd break out the long glass and just pretend the texture doesn't exist.
There were samples on about 5 media types if I remember right. Canvas was
nice yet you have a good and valid point brought up in the review. When the
texture was reproduced on canvas from oil, if the points of light on the
original didn't match up it has a less convincing appearance. Not sure if
there is a way to line up the original and the canvas in the printer to have
a 1:1 texture pattern where the specular points line up perfectly registered
on the repro.
The results are surprisingly convincing, and once set up the repro of a
works is very quick indeed.
One of the ideas behind this was more than repro for archive ( the Z32000
inks are the most permanent colour inks out there) but one for gallery and
or museum kiosk prints. Lots of potential, the concept a great one and the
people who made it achieved a wonderful goal.
The watercolor repro'd onto watercolour were very good , the originals
weren't however lit for texture, rather flat light..
Neil Snape
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