Hi, Cotty wrote: > > Just done a series of 16X12 prints for a friend on Ilford Gallerie Smooth > Gloss. WOW. You could knock me down with a feather. The paper quality is > superb and the pics GLOW. Apologies - I don't often use caps. It really > is stunning stuff. Epson just lost a customer.
Isn't this the stuff on a buy-one-get-one-free (bogof) from AP? > At the weekend I was inspired by the wonderful autumn colours and wanted > to do something about it. Last year I roamed Stowe House gardens in Bucks > and did your usual landscapes of trees dripping with golden cover. This > year I collected a couple of dozen leaves and selected 5 for > photographing. I put each one in a glass sandwich with a sheet of white > paper behind and backlit with a 650w Pulsar, shot using a macro. Later I > arranged the 5 into a pattern and lost the background entirely so the > leaves are sitting in white space. Printed large, with one big leaf in > the middle surrounded by 4 others in various states of decay and > associated colour, printed large - I was pleased at how I have managed > after all this time to get the colour right. I can't fault it. Here, the trees started to change colour nicely and then, last night, we had one hell of a hail storm and everything looks decidedly bare today. > Try a box of the Gallerie Smooth Gloss if you can. Or two if you get this week's AP in the UK. mike
