I am late in replying to this, and no doubt in well over my head when it
comes to the technicalities you all discuss with such ease.
However, I wanted to tell you that we were in Vegas about 3 years ago,
and had the pleasure/discomfort of perusing his gallery and being
kidnapped in a back room for the hard sell. We almost bought one, but
couldn't figure a way to get it home without breaking the bank, and so
we asked if we could please have the salesman's email so we could
discuss it further after we had returned home, measured the location
where we would put the large panorama print, and determined how best to
ship it. He looked us in the eye (after the hour long private hard sell
and private showing of many prints), curled his lip and sneered with
disgust "Why? You'll never email me. Just be honest, I'll never hear
from you again." Obviously he lost that sale and we told him so.
Anyhow, the thing of note that I've not seen anyone mention in the posts
here, is the salesman tried very hard to convince us and show us how the
printing of Peter Lik's prints is so very different and copyrighted. It
would seem the salesman wanted to liken it to the effect we hear about
with the Thomas Kinkade (spelling?) paintings. According to the
salesman, Peter Lik has a contract with (I believe the salesman said)
Fuji. At the time the story went like this: Peter Lik and Fuji (if that
is the correct company) entered into a contractual agreement whereby
Peter Lik would be the only photographer to use and trouble shoot a new
printing technique. We were told there were actual ground up crystals in
teeny tiny particles in the print ink, enabling the print to reflect
light and have that glowing luminous effect that is often associate with
Thomas Kinkade. I have no way of knowing if that information is factual,
but it is what we were told in great lengthy tedious detail. We were
mainly interested in some of his photography taken just a few miles from
where we live.
Don't know if that has any impact on the discussion or not.
Candace
Paul wrote:
> Just walked out of Lik's gallery at the Forum Shops at Caesar's in
> Vegas.
>
> I continue to be amazed by his almost freakish mastery of dynamic
> range, DOF, and color.
>
> I need to do some research, just out if curiousity, into what he
> shhots with.
>
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