My wife and I stopped by your fine art printing operation a few months ago but you were out on a photo project. Your wife warmly showed us your operation, and we had a great time talking about photography and fine art printing. We especially enjoyed the finished prints in your gallery. I hope to get with you soon to make a print for me. Keep up the good work!
Hi, very good and interesting video and a rather cool presentation of this art. Good job. 👍 I do prefer the prints showing the brush strokes and showing that they are original handmade platinum prints. Keep up with your work! Greetings from Luxembourg.
Brush strokes always looks so cool. Such a shame they get covered up. The 3 prints you did with David Brookover where you didn’t cover the whole paper (you used a giant lazy Susan for one of them) are incredible and being able to see the brush strokes definitely adds to their beauty
Thanks Matt for sharing your rationale on this. After thinking of it for a while, I came to a very similar conclusion: you can mat over the brush strokes, but you also have the option of having full strokes showing a very thin black border and anything in between. I also wanted to take this opportunity to ask your advice on the border problems that further contributed to my preference for brushed borders. On some of my clean border prints, emulsion clears fully next to the print edge but leaves fogged line further away (it looks like sensitiser would flood more at the end of brush stroking). Did you experience anything like this, and could it be fog?
Hello Matt, Happy to have stumbled upon your channel. I entered the platinum Vortex last t year. For now I keep to straight borders. While I thought i loved brushstrokes originally, I ended deeming them too in your face, garish. My current project is all clean edges. Now thinking again, I suspect that print size matters too. On 8x10 I find that distracting and garish. I am about to embark on larger size (20x24) and the question comes up again. The relative size of the border vs the print make the brushstrokes potentially more part of the image and less aggressive. Cheers Patrick
I do have a preference for brush strokes, but like Matt mentioned, I can always cover it with a mat board. I never tried the approach of a black border on the negative, but will give it a try. Thanks for this video, Matt!
Really cool there are so many options though and I guess this is what the video is all about. I like the border made with brushstrokes and the white edges covered with matted board but that sounds like a lot of extra aggravation. I should stop being lazy and tape my corners for once.
I like brush strokes better please:-) Here's a question; could the reverse border (I think that's what you called it when the brush strokes don't go right out to the edge of the image) also be a sign that it's Platinum print?
