Don Messec: Making Art Safely, Part 1 May 23, 2011 Last week I was working with Don Messec at his amazing and healthy printmaking studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Don has dedicated the last two decades to making art safer for printmakers and artists. I... artists piezography life writing Read more
The Darkroom Revisited - version 2 Feb 17, 2011 Yesterday, I was in the darkroom with Ilford MultiGrade IV paper, Sprint Chemistry, and Piezography digital-negatives. It was fun and dark. With water running quietly, it seemed quite meditative. Perf... digital negatives piezography life writing Read more
Printing images from Photoshop =>CS4 Feb 10, 2011 When Photoshop updated CS4, they removed the “No Color Management” option from the Print dialogue. We assumed that printing instead with “Printer Manages Color” would produce the same effect because t... calibration workflow writing Read more
Gimme that old time feeling Jan 23, 2011 This winter I have been shooting with a combination of plastic Diana lenses, single element optic lenses, and my prized Zeiss Distagon 21mm ƒ2.8. Shooting with a diana lens makes me feel a bit nostalg... artists featured piezography development piezography life Read more
no substitute for real world testing Oct 20, 2010 There is no substitute for real world testing…like 20 feet of salt water and 3 months in the direct sun! Its been five years since the tragic devistation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Unfortunately, ma... piezography life writing Read more
A Theory of Two Georges Apr 12, 2010 There is the theory that a few colors can reproduce everything else, and I think of the great French painter Georges Seurat. In the latter part of the 19th century, Seurat painted dots of red, green, ... artists featured piezography life writing Read more
On new papers and coating observations Mar 23, 2010 A recent comment on the popular Digital BW, The Print discussion list left me scratching my head yesterday…a little in disbelief at the responses to what seemed like a very benign observation by a m... piezography life writing Read more
On new papers and coating observations part 3 Mar 23, 2010 The strange thing about all this is that in 2005, Piezography Neutral K7 was released as a multi-toning ink system. But, instead of using color inks, it utilized the tone of the paper in order to arri... piezography life writing Read more
On new papers and coating observations part 2 Mar 23, 2010 The strange thing about all this is that in 2005, Piezography Neutral K7 was released as a multi-toning ink system. But, instead of using color inks, it utilized the tone of the paper in order to arri... piezography life writing Read more
A Calibration Primer Jan 20, 2009 INTRODUCTION* Piezography K7 is intended as a synergistic relationship between seven shades of carbon black ink and a special Piezography curve for the QuadTone RIP (QTR) software. The Piezography des... calibration workflow writing Read more
Pre-Visualization Strategies for Piezography part 3 Jan 20, 2009 So if a photographer can not calibrate their display to print, or refuses to… why would a photographer refuse to calibrate to print? The reason I hear the most, is that they do not like the look of th... calibration workflow writing Read more
Pre-Visualization Strategies for Piezography part 2 Jan 20, 2009 Lets take a look at what happens when a display is calibrated too bright. Many photographer like to look at their images as if they were looking at them on a light box. They often calibrate so that th... calibration workflow writing Read more