It might well be necessary to spend another $7,500 to replicate the
mounting and lighting. I've been seriously thinking about mounting a
medium size HDTV on the wall that's capable of running a slide show off
a flash card. "slide show" might be the right term. Without the
correct lighting prints can be rather ho-hum.
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/15/2011 5:14 PM, Wiliam Wagenaar wrote:
> Marc Lawrence wrote:
> -----
> For what it's worth, and in my opinion, based on there being a Peter
> Lik gallery 15 minutes walk from me, I would offer that they do look
> better as prints, improved even moreso under the gallery's lighting. I
> would actually say they are quite awesome, without using that word as
> a simple throwaway for "really good". I'm not greatly into his style
> of photography, but I am most impressed when seeing his photos at full
> size.
> -----
>
> I can honestly say that I have never seen photos on display like in the
> Peter Lik gallery. With the special lighting around a sunrise (or sunset)
> photo of a natural arch it really looked like the sun was rising or setting
> over the image, even though no backlit was used. While the gallery manager
> turned the lighting up more and more details and colors became visible. The
> print was about 8ft wide an 3ft high. It certainly had the WOW factor for
> me. At $7.500,- (IIRC) for the print alone it was way out of reach though,
> albeit worldwide shipping was included ;-)).
>
> Wiliam
>
>
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