Thursday evening

[da]

Yesterday was yet-still-more-meh-work. I'm beginning to think of this project as a Long March, though I'm doing an OK job at breaking it up into little steps. I haven't gotten to the Tibetan highlands yet. Many steps.

But last night, after work, was:

Photo class with catbear which was impromptu and awesome and brain-filling. It covered the technical bits for what happens to his art after he's decided he's satisfied with what's on his computer screen. He's experimenting and some of the results are pretty neat.

We covered: stretching canvas, constructing frames, laminating prints (and what kinds of amazing differences in colour profiles you can get after you laminate), looking at colour profiles on his computer (which is a lot more sexy than you might expect, because the software draws a 3-d shape of a colour space, giving you slices of possible colour you can get on paper and not on a LCD monitor and vice-versa. And it shows how lamination will give you a much wider gamut), details of how his coffin-sized printer will calibrate itself to different media (the printer has a scanner, and the first time he puts in a particular new kind of media, it will do a two-stage calibration to figure out what the media's response is to particular amounts of ink), a third stage of calibration after you've laminated (it will read the laminated calibration print back in, and extrapolate from the laminated output what colour changes it needs to make to the original print to make it match the "proper" output), and the capabilities of a range of media, from canvas to kevlar to sketch paper.

Somehow, all of this happened in an hour and a half. It was a drinking-from-firehose learning experience, and I loved it.

Coming home, I discovered a three-foot-tall snow-angel in our driveway, and it was adorably cute.

And then I sat and chatted with d. and persephoneplace, and then, a very brief chat with dpolicar with USian Turkey Day greetings, and falling asleep next to melted_snowball shortly after.

Thankful? Yes. Most definitely.

Comments

[chezmax]

Lamination *enlarges* the colour gamut? (like, covering it in plastic?!)

Weiird!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

It makes it more shiny. :)

I've asked catbear for clarification, but my guess is that since you're reflecting more of the light, there's more room to work with.

[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

If I think of laminating more like putting a finish on a wooden surface (floor, table, chair) and less like sticking a picture behind a piece of glass or plastic or hockey player, it helps my silly brain accept the notion.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

That's a good intuition. Thanks.

...hockey player? I'd think putting it behind a protective coating of sheep would be at least as likely.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

preferably young sheep.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Or maybe Llaminating?

[catbear.livejournal.com]

Same effect as putting water on bricks -- they get darker and more intensely red. Changing the reflective characteristics, etc.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. That, plus what Dawn said, makes sense.

I think you should call your process llamanating.

[catbear.livejournal.com]

Only if I can spit.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

...isn't that more a worry with encameling?