Fracture glass prints5/17/2023 ![]() ![]() I would like to add a bit more to the story. Interesting that they have a backing attached to the glass now so that back lighting becomes impossible. The glass is very glossy (no surprise there) so you need to display the print in an place where reflections don't create a problem. With the right subject matter they really sing.īTW: The glass has a backing firmly attached and so it would not be possible to shine light through the glass print. They show the dimensions on the web site. When ordering, be careful to size your submission for the aspect ratio of the fracture print you choose (they have multiple sizes in rectangular and square). The glass has rounded edges, nothing sharp at all. I don't intend this to be any kind of formal review, but I ordered and received two Fracture prints, on glass (). Keith, please let us know how the glass prints turned out and if you were happy with the service. I tried the RA-4 process with color negatives and got some decent results with it, but it was very time consuming, and the RA-4 developer is fairly air sensitive. I have never printed a color transparency though. Biggest difficulty was to calibrate for the tonal range of Dektol and the used photosensitive paper to the inkjet print by applying a tonal adjustment curve in PS before printing the negative. I am using Pictorico Premium OHP transparency film. It works, I print 4x5" digital negatives with my inkjet printer in B&W with some applied yellowish cast to be put into the enlarger. I saw glass prints in the Bellagio in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, by the way. That's why I mentioned them as a transparency alternative in the first place. No, he didn't backlight them but I assume that it should be possible using LED strips. Would the reflections still be an issue, or would the backlighting mitigate / offset the frontlight reflections? I suppose that you could backlight them with a translucent backer / vellum / etc. just took a quick look at the promo video. Have you had one of these done?Ī friend of mine had a few large ones printed. Never heard of Fracture - I looked it up and it sounds interesting, though it isn't a transparency. I do and I have and I will never do it again as it's such a pain in the ass. The provided profiles are not any good and it's virtually impossible to make your own, even if you do have the right equipment. Printing inkjet transparencies yourself is an exercise in frustration. I think inkjet media comes both with that type of backing and completely clear and LVTs, as far as I know are just real film with no backing. Duratrans and Fujitrans both have a semi translucent diffused backing that is designed for backlight. have abandoned them and gone to large format inkjet. In fact the reason that Duratrans is so hard to fine now is that it's very hard to get the RA4 chemical processors fixed. Have you had one of these done? Thank you. PhilPDX - Never heard of Fracture - I looked it up and it sounds interesting, though it isn't a transparency. In any case I'd like one bigger than my printer will print so I need a lab anyway at some point. Peter - I didn't know I could get transparency media for an inkjet. I'm not familiar with that term but it sounds like what I'm looking for. Would something like Fracture - direct prints on glass - be a viable alternative for you?ĮB-1 I think Duratrans is on the web site I found (Reed Art and Phto). The first two are getting pretty hard to find these days but you shouldn't have any problem finding a lab to do the latter. Your choices are Duratrans, as previously stated, Kodak LVT or the Fuji equivalent, or backlit transparency media for inkjet. ![]() I'm seeing much point in a transparency without diffusion. Has anyone made a color transparency from a digital file and then mounted the transparency into a frame with a back light? I've been trying to find a lab that makes transparencies and only found one so far. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |