Mark, I actually have a good-sized mat cutter system that came with a mess of used darkroom equipment that I bought several years ago. I intended to sell it, but never have. Would need to figure out how to use it, but I've got a Hobby Lobby nearby so mat material is available, but I don't think larger than 24x36, which is kind of what I'd like to print at.
Steve, thanks for the kind words and link. I'll have to look into that aluminum idea. My office is right next to a machine shop, so I would think I could get the aluminum basically at wholesale. I'll have to exercise my Google-Fu and see if I can find more info on that process. Sounds cool. When I was in high school, and for a while after, I worked at a local portrait/wedding photographer's studio in my home town. This was late 70's. One of my duties was spraying lacquer on the prints at a spray booth, using what was basically a big compressor driven paint gun - like you would paint a car with. The spray booth had a big squirrel cage blower in it that would suck the prints to the mesh and draw the fumes up and out of the building. We had different gallons of lacquer we would use depending upon if we wanted a matte finish or a high gloss.Come to think of it, we have a big ventilated paint booth at work also. Hmmmm. On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:05 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-09-22 19:38 , Darren Addy wrote: >> >> Great info Mark. Thanks! >> >> I'm curious... what do people do with big prints these days? In the >> "old days" there was dry mount. Then there was peel off self-stick >> mount boards. But what do people do with larger prints like 24x36? I'm >> dying to get a few of mine finally up on the walls. > > > a brewery near me hosted a kickoff party for something called the > Brewtography Project; they have several large prints hung; most are black > and white, and they look like they are mounted on aluminum with some kind of > thick gloss applied; i don't know the process, but i was pleasantly > surprised by the quality and non-gimmickiness of the result (it helps that > the photos are well-done, often genuinely interesting) > > having seen your work, Darren, i think some of it would look really good > printed this way > > (warning: video autoplay in the link below; you will also see the > photographer shoot C***n and chimp a lot) > > <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/397496570/the-brewtography-project-discovering-colorado-brew> > > if you scroll down the page above, the shot of the two men, one pouring, one > stirring, was done at Baere Brewing, where the photos were hung; Baere did a > beer called F Stops Here for the party > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
