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Re: [Digital BW] Paul Roark's prints

2012-10-29 by Tina Manley

I agree.  Paul's prints will knock your socks off!

Tina

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Steve Kale <stevekale@...> wrote:

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> I just moved house and with everything going to new places I had the
> chance to look again - really look closely - at a print of Paul's that my
> wife bought me for our first wedding anniversary almost 5 years ago. Here's
> a link to the image http://paulroark.com/Cambria.html The level of detail
> and gradation even in the shadows of the print is simply stunning. My wife
> and I were debating the position of two prints destined for our living room
> - one was Paul's and the other a print from David Brookover from Jackson WY
> which had been done on some sort of Photo black paper. (At one stage I
> discussed with David what fine art paper he used but I don't recall now. It
> certainly doesn't have the qualities of HPR Fine Art Baryta.) It was
> somewhat painful to have the Brookover print in the same room because,
> despite being a fantastic image
> http://www.brookovergallery.com/_store/portfolio/bw/medium/ks002bw.jpg it
> just hadn't been printed to the same level of quality. With each behind the
> same glass and with very similar framing, Paul's matt paper (HPR) print
> exuded deeper blacks, more depth and more detail.
>
> If you don't own one of Paul's prints, buy one - if only to see what a
> master printer (and photographer) can do with this medium.
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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