About a Photograph / Boxing Glove

[@nicholsa63]

Great image, i will be at the Fair and will check it out.

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Please do. Thank you.

[@tom_pinnegar]

Wild question - I've printed onto silver gelatine on glass and the image just disappears when it drops onto a piece of white paper. Do you know why it would work better with carbon than with silver? Maybe there's an extra translucency of the deep gelatine/pigment which silver grains don't have? Or maybe the reflection of light from the black silver, where carbon absorbs it better? In principle both media let light through to the paper and block it in proportion to density of pigment (depth for carbon, flat density for silver), and reflect it back again. Any thoughts?

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Silver is opaque. Pigmented gelatin is translucent. Glass is the same. Sorry for the short message, but I am pushing a pram with my sleeping son.

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

But that said, translucency depends on the quality of pigment. My favorite is India ink. The worst are watercolors. I've made a vlog about chimney soot as a pigment. Proper carbon print.

[@tom_pinnegar]

​@@BorutPeterlinPhotography Short is beautiful! Prams are more important than internetzzz. That makes a lot of sense - I was guessing light would travel between pigment particles better than when it hits a massive silver grain, but actually if it also is going through a dye, it would make even more sense. I saw that video a while ago, but I'll go for a refresher. I had the opportunity to see the difference at the Yvonde exhibition in London last year - the book prints are lifeless in comparison to the colour carbons there; it's totally worth the effort. Thanks for the reply!