Transit is the photo album I designed for Cosmin Bumbuț as a Brandient sponsorship for excellence. For the extremely tricky shades of gray found in Cosmin's beautiful winter shots I tried a special printing technique: the book is a frequency modulated halftone tritone. This means that I printed the rich grays in the B&W photos from a mixture of three grays (a light and a medium gray + black) as tritone in stochastic halftone. Each color channel was individually color-corrected in 16 bit mode and then reduced to 8 bit and merged in multichannel image files. This files were fine-tuned by hand so the color would have maximum range were is needed (and it really was needed, because many shots depict steam or snow).

I could never make it without Cosmin and Humanitas trusting me (and this is not easy, because nobody tried the technique mentioned above in Romania, as far as I know), or without one of the best print producers in the country, Laura <Peggy> Abrihan, a die-hard of extreme print jobs.

Go to LensWorks overview of the current issue. The book is also featured in Fotomagazin, in PhotoEye Newsletter, and other places and was also awarded as The Best Book of Art by the Romanian Publishers Association in 2003.