In Cambridge, a city so eager to embrace same-sex weddings that its clerk's office will open its doors at midnight, the Charles Hotel (reception starting price: about $20,000) is also relying on its high-gloss image, along with some subtle marketing (it donated a wedding at a fund-raiser for a local gay health center).
Graphic limitations of the Web can make it hard for designers to get across the high-gloss image that is vital to preserving "their brand equity," explained Evie Black Dykema, an analyst with Forrester Research, a research firm in Cambridge, Mass.
Another standout is the translation of one of Fred Tomaselli's high-gloss images of two birds among some trees.
The Web has changed our economy of images: no longer can high-gloss images in newspapers or magazines monopolize the news.
Elad Lassry, a sought-after Los Angeles photographer who is sometimes described as a post-Pictures Generation artist, makes brightly colored, high-gloss images that can appear to leave little distance between the commercial and the analytical.
Mind that in figure a red indicates a high gloss while in figure b, c red indicates high degradation and thus a low gloss.
It's high gloss and high drama rather than an image of intense national pride, it's goofy and overwrought, as absurd and contextless as the latest meme that Tumblr users have decided to run into the ground.
He polishes his images to a high gloss, an unfortunate choice for the World War II killing fields in "Atonement" and the skid row in "The Soloist," another of his films.
SERVICE -- Polished to a high gloss.
The dominant color is black, in high-energy high gloss.
So don't expect high gloss from this production.
